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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Even when I was a a party-girl, New Year's Eve was the one night in which I stayed home, pretty much every year. I still keep that tradition. It works for me. I like it. Also, when I was a party-girl,...
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HELLO 2013!!
2013, here we go. I enjoy being at the beginning of things. A new book to read, a new journal to write in, a new scrapbook to fill. It's fun to start anew. 2012 was a good year, but I expect 2013 to be...
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Blogging For Posterity
Family is the most important thing to my existence. Whereas, previously, there were some periods in my life - especially before I had children - where I honestly wasn't sure what my priorities were....
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Happy Birthday To My Grandma!
My Grandma & Twinkle, 1989I miss you always, but especially today. It's been nine years since you've been gone. As much as I miss you I'm glad you got to be with Papa A. like you wanted to be when...
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In the Beginning.....
.... of my parenting life, I had no plan. As I entered adulthood, my main parenting forethought was, I would do better than my own parents had done. Back then, I was in an extended stage of rebellion,...
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A Conversion
This is me with my daughter, Moonchie, a half hour or so before our baptism last Sunday. Well not hers. Ours. Hubby and I got baptized.So much has been going on, I haven't known where to begin to post...
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Why I'm A Mormon
The short answer is LOVE. Here's the really long answer.For a long time I felt like an oddball around people. I thought, surely something must be wrong with me because there were a lot of people and...
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This Dimensional Life
Our lives unfold in multi-dimensions. Have you noticed? For me, I'm living this life, wearing different hats: as a mother, as a wife, as an employee, as a daughter, as a friend, as a sister. And now we...
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Does Anyone Even Talk About This?
I'm not gonna lie, I don't really want to talk about this. It's one of those Pandora's-box kind of topics wherein, once it's open, you can't gather up the contents and put it back in the box without...
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Our Season of LOVE
In the spirit of Valentine's Day, let's talk about LOVE. In case you didn't notice, it is my favorite topic (lately). With this being the Valentine's season, I can talk about LOVE in the company of...
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To Whom Much Is Given......
For the last few days my emotions have been gathering like a pending storm. It's not a bad thing, I assure you. We're human, we come with emotions. We all manage them every day. I finally turned to my...
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I Am NOT My Politics, But It's Still In Me
Now's a good time to talk about my politics. My blog tracker shows there are a number of new readers over here. Lately, I've only been blogging about my conversion and my family. So yah! There's been...
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Ummm.... I'll Just Be Random..... Kinda
Sometimes I'm loquacious on my blog and you can't shut me up. Other times? Not so much. Are you ever moody? Are there days when you feel like you just have nothing to say? People talking all around...
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Playing With My Camera
I've been here, you know. I've written a few posts. I just didn't publish any of them. Somewhere down the line, I think I may eventually publish one or two of them. But for now.... gosh, I'm just not...
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"Oh You're With Mitt Romney and His Crew"
Staying away from secrets has been a big deal to me in my adult life. I grew up in a family of secret-keepers. I was trained to keep secrets from childhood and I always hated it. Children are the...
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Trying to Write....
It's just the busiest time of year for me at my place of work. I bring my personal laptop to the office everyday in hopes getting inspiration to write a post. I've been inspired, but I haven't had...
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My Conversion Continues
Before I got baptized, I used to believe that if I didn't physically assault or murder anybody, I would remain in God's good graces, no matter what I did. I figured murder was the worse offense, so I...
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A Quickie....
Busy busy time at work. Getting ready for our annual meeting. My head is here, there and everywhere all at once. But a thought popped in this morning: What have I learned this week? I've learned that I...
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Too Happy to Focus!
I'm hardly in a mood to write. Why? I'm filled with pure moosh and goosh. And who wants to read about THAT? Yah! I know. Happy-happy, joy-joyness over here! It's my FAVORITE time of year. Spring is...
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Three Years Sober Today!
The reasons I told myself why I drank: I liked how the buzz felt.Weekends were made for drinking.My childhood was so bad, I needed to blot it out.Being tipsy improved my mood, helped me to get along...
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