I am taking part in the #nablopomo18 writing party.
Wow, where to begin? This past year has been crazy. Being able to purchase my own space for blogging had been a dream come true. Even though the process of making it mine was longer than I wanted or expected it to take. I can still feel the calmness and creativity flow when I walk through the door. Having something that is mine – that my blog enabled me to buy is putting an exclamation point on the fact that my work does and still Read more [...]A Letter to Myself A Year From Now
I am taking part in the #nablopomo18 writing party.
Wow, where to begin? This past year has been crazy. Being able to purchase my own space for blogging had been a dream come true. Even though the process of making it mine was longer than I wanted or expected it to take. I can still feel the calmness and creativity flow when I walk through the door. Having something that is mine – that my blog enabled me to buy is putting an exclamation point on the fact that my work does and still Read more [...]
The other day I was driving my daughter Gracie to school. We were driving the Honda which means that we were listening to the regular radio, unlike in the Acadia where I have Sirius XM. On this particular morning, a political ad came on the radio and honestly, I couldn't tell you who the ad was for because after I heard the words, “illegal immigrant,” I quickly tuned it out.
Why did that ad trigger me? We’ll let me tell you my story. My husband Raul, who I've 
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Dear Santa (Aka Babe),
I know you are like most men and have no clue what to get your wife for Christmas. So I thought I would give you some ideas so that at least you can tell the girls what to buy when you send them to the store for my gifts. 😉 (Yep I went there.) Even better you can just tell them to go to MyGiftstop.com to shop for me.
In all seriousness, I know that you are clueless about what to get not 
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When I first met my husband he had a gorgeous head of thick hair. This picture was taken about 13 years ago. He was playing on the beach with Mikaela, our middle daughter who is now 15.
Yep time flies when you are having fun. But in recent years he has slowly begun to lose that thick head of hair. I blame this on 
