Thank You for Sharing Your Life With Me at Straight Arrow Camp
Summertime means Vacation Bible School and Summer Camps — and that brings back precious memories of craft time, Kool Aid, cookies, games, songs, learning to swim, early morning Pledge of Allegiance to the flag, singing songs while waiting for the camp dining hall to open up like “Here we stand like birds in the wilderness…
And, I Think to Myself……What a Wonderful World!
I’m loving being in WA and back to my routine of taking my two youngest grandsons to school and picking them up in the afternoon! Yesterday morning, as we headed out of the driveway, we heard on the radio, Louis Armstrong singing “And I think to myself, “What a Wonderful World”. Suddenly, I had a…
I’m Not Telling You It’s Going To Be Easy! I Am Telling You It’s Going To Be Worth It!
We were married for just three months, when my sweet, young husband announced that we should start our family. “We want to be young parents and grand-parents”, was his rationale. Indeed, we were just babies when we had our babies (we were 18 & 19 with the first, & 20 & 21 with the second).…
Let’s Change the World in THIS Generation
There’s the younger generation, mid-life generation or older generation! And, since we’re all alive at the same time, we are all THIS generation. And, if we’d get together, we could change the world in THIS generation. WHATEVER age, color, gender or nationality we are – God has a plan and a purpose for our lives…
Only Listen to the RIGHT Voices!
I did my flight training at a small airport in Cleveland, OK. Getting my pilot’s license was my husband’s idea. Since we often flew cross country with our children on board, he felt it important that I should, at least be able to land the plane….just in case the unthinkable happened to him. He was…
Retirement — Not a Word in my Vocabulary!
We all have treasures inside of us — there’s skills, talents and potential that God put there, and it’s up to us to grow and develop them. If we don’t, we’ll find that “rocking chair” or “couch” — “just switching channels on the remote control” — becomes “that’s all there is” to us. We will…
Following the Lead of Successful Businesses and People
When my family comes to Tulsa, eating at Chick-fil-A is a MUST! It went quickly, but we waited in a long line to place our order at the drive thru window!. Always a crowd there, I said, “This is really a phenomenon!” Then I remembered just why this company is so successful and has grown…
Make Lots of Memories
I took Payton and Alexia to see their Great Granny today. When their home at Lake Keystone, OK was destroyed by a devastating tornado 24 years ago, my young son, who sold real estate at the time, found Mom & Dad a lovely home that backs to Page Belcher Golf Course. It’s been a precious…
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!
We’ve heard them many times — the voices in our heads that say “You won’t make it!” “There’s no way you can do that!” “Give up — there’s no way out!” “You don’t have the right personality!” “You weren’t born into the ‘right’ family.” “You could NEVER be a success — you don’t have the…
What Grows in Your Garden?
I saw a friend’s post a couple of days ago where she was asking for advice for getting rid of weeds in her garden. Comments to her post included: “Put newspaper around the plant – it will suffocate the weeds”; “Put grass clippings around the plant”; and I loved this one “Don’t plant a garden!”…