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A tummy is such a fickle thing. You make it mad, it will pay you back in ways unde­scrib­able. It’s scary, really. I’m obvi­ously no new­bie to the “Delhi belly”…you can’t even visit India with­out get­ting the “scream­ming mimis”. But’s it’s been many, many years since I’ve dealt with it to the extent that I […]

Image by kwer­feldein via Flickr I men­tioned last year that I don’t do New Year’s Res­o­lu­tions. I’ve never been able to keep them and they just frus­trate me to no end. I actu­ally had an incred­i­ble year the first year I chose to throw those res­o­lu­tions out the win­dow and just strove to be who […]

For the next sev­eral days I will be emers­ing myself in Hol­i­day magic. I will be cel­e­brat­ing life and remem­ber­ing the Great­est Gift of all.…Jesus.  I’ll be back after the holidays…a lit­tle fatter…and maybe a lit­tle sassier.  Till then.…

I am one of those sappy women that can’t approach Christ­mas with­out weep­ing. I don’t shed sor­row­ful tears, instead they are fill­ing up my “Joy­ous Tears” jar. Christ­mas screams hope and joy around every cor­ner. The key though is you have to look for it. This past week­end, we went to Bass Pro to let the […]

Wow…did I ever pick the wrong day to travel back home!  The worst win­ter storm of the sea­son.  I fig­ured we would be safe trav­el­ing through Phoenix, but those peo­ple do NOT know how to han­dle rain! It was rain­ing for the first time in 6 months and it was  down­pour. You would think the […]

When Old­man started school, I was embar­rassed to find out that you’re sup­posed to give a gift to the teach­ers for Christ­mas. It never occurred to me for some rea­son. It’s not that I didn’t appre­ci­ate her and it’s not that Old­man didn’t love her because he did. I just didn’t know the eti­quette behind […]