In the past year, I have taken advantage of many airline deals.  What’s my favorite destination you may be wondering? It’s my nonstop flight to see my twin nieces ‘the bubbies’.  I have discovered that when you book a ticket, many times there after the airline sends another sensation deal to your email inbox. So, …

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Last year we had the most amazing experience staying in a French countryside chateau that was over 500 years old! We arrived at this bed and breakfast after the first leg of our driving tour. It looked like a movie set.  We were given our antique castle key, and shown to our third floor room …

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Friday night, logging off the work computer, is there any greater feeling? But for some reason I felt an unexplained heaviness this particular Friday night. There wasn’t anything necessarily wrong or stressful, just the usual worry pebbles of life. The workday was fine. Sure I left with the same number of activities in my queue …

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This past month we celebrated my 23rd wedding anniversary. I wanted to share the perfect illustration of our love story, which involves a humble cell phone charger. Trust me mamas, and keep reading… We were headed out for a long multi state drive. My hubby had been car shopping for over a year now, and …

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Seafood and I are okay friends, but not best friends.  I didn’t grow up eating a lot of sea life. Our church, at that time, followed the clean and unclean animal eating laws laid out in the book of Leviticus. Believe it or not, there are a lot of seafood no no’s on that list. …

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