Month: September 2016

What’s on Your Bucket List?

Finish High School – Check Get a good job — Check (Nope, college wasn’t on the list.) Get married – Check Have babies – Check Lose 10 pounds – Check Learn to fly an airplane – Check Go on a cruise – Check (15, in fact) Take a trip to the Holy Lands — (still…

By Donna Wuerch Noble September 9, 2016 Off

And Let the JUDGING Begin

As in every year since I was a little girl, I’ll be watching the glitz and glam, seeing who wins all those scholarships and finding out who takes home the crown of the Miss America pageant this Sunday night on ABC. I was starstruck by those beautiful, smart and talented young women vying to be…

By Donna Wuerch Noble September 8, 2016 Off

Happy Labor Day, Laborers AND Moms!

Happy Labor Day!! I still laugh as I recall my son’s telephone call to me on Labor Day three years ago. With the family in the background hollering, “Happy Mother’s Day”, I said, “What?” And Ryan replied, “It’s Labor Day, so we’re thanking you for your “labor” in bringing me into this world! So Happy…

By Donna Wuerch Noble September 5, 2016 Off

The “In His Image” Pageant

A couple of months ago, I posted a blog about a young lady from my church who was working on her Senior Year Project – an “In His Image” Pageant. What an absolute joy to see a young woman with her head and heart in the right place – desiring to influence her generation with…

By Donna Wuerch Noble September 4, 2016 Off

She Needed a Hero, So She Became One!

Lately, I’ve noticed that I’ve been getting “surprise” bruises on my hands, legs and arms. Most of the time I don’t even remember bumping into anything. I understand that it’s incredibly common in the 60s+ to have thinner skin that’s more susceptible to bruising. I’m taking matters into my own handsand amping up the Vitamin…

By Donna Wuerch Noble September 3, 2016 Off

He loves me. He loves me not.

Remember taking a flower and “playing the game “He loves me; He loves me not”, while picking one petal off a flower (usually a daisy or a rose) for each phrase? The phrase we said at the last petal represented the truth between whether that cute boy loved us or not. I don’t know if…

By Donna Wuerch Noble September 2, 2016 Off

Rose Gardens Need a Little Rain

Yesterday, I was sitting at my desk in the morning and the sun was so bright coming through my office window from the East, that I had to move my computer. Then in the afternoon, the dark clouds were looming in the East. Rain was on its way. This has been an unusual summer. Though…

By Donna Wuerch Noble September 1, 2016 Off