Embrace being different. I get to live in one of the most beautiful places in the states; mountains, rivers, and lakes are all in my ‘backyard’. One of my favorite hikes is a butte near my house. It has a 600-foot elevation gain in a mile. It is the perfect workout for this girl who …
Play It Safe
How to do what I know God wants me to do, but in my own safe way? This is a topic I have spent my whole life mastering. You can give me any situation, and I can instantly tell you every potential problem, warning, and negative outcome. My profession is seeing absolute worst things that …
All About Ice Baby
September 12th is a very special anniversary. This date represents a day of hope and completion. All that physical work, the shots, pills, the hours in the car driving to medical appointments, invasive ultrasounds. All the additional tests, the humiliation, the probing, the what ifs, the research, the unanswered questions, it had all lead to THIS …
Watering Weeds
We live on a beautiful half-acre. I feel like I live in a Disney movie! I hear birds chirping all day long. I see squirrels and chipmunks scurry past my window. We even get daily deer visitors. But as life seems to go every good thing has a dark side. For us, and our fairytale …
Moody?
We have several indoor plants. Believe it or not, the plant I have the most trouble keeping alive, is the plant that is the hardest to kill; the succulent! To me the word succulent sounds like they would want to suck down water. (Anyone else following my logic here?) I have gotten mixed up on several …