HAPPY VALENTINES DAY
We have gone from worrying about what to buy for Christmas, to being pestered about spending a bunch of money on Valentines Day. Flowers, jewelry, romantic evenings, all have come to be a ritual to prove to our lovers that …
Tag: love.
Why your child is not “special”
My children are special. My grandchildren are REALLY special! However, their “specialness” stops with their God, family and loved ones. I take every opportunity to tell them they are special to ME! But to the rest of the world they …
Goodbye Resolutions! Happy New Year
I am the master of resolution! Every New Year I pick out something I want to change about myself and every year (like millions of my fellow humans) I fail. I think I have figured out why. A “resolution” implies …
My Christmas Wish for All
It is the final countdown! I have continued my Christmas tradition of not being ready with Christmas cards (every year I swear I will start in July, in 2017 I will target June). I am also struggling with the hardest …
Happy Appreciation Day
Whenever we would visit for Thanksgiving, my daughter by choice, Alice, would make sure to have a pot of Minnesota wild rice soup ready. Christmas decorations would go up weeks early, and my son and grandchildren were under orders to …