Category: Family Life

The last day of November and the last day of our challenge! Wow! Where did November go?? My family and I had a fun family day today. We are getting our Advent wreath and calendar ready to go for tomorrow. I love the Advent season as we prepare for Christmas. It is always so hard…

Can you believe that Thanksgiving is over and tomorrow is the last day of November already? It seems like the year had just begun and now it is coming to an end. For many people I know, 2014 cannot come soon enough as they have gone through some extreme hardships this year. Losing a child is at…

Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Hanukkah to my Jewish friends! Today is a day to say thanks for all that we have. We have so much to be thankful for! It is so easy to get caught up in what everyone else is doing and what they have and we compare ourselves. But it is always…

It has been COLD here in Indiana lately! I just took my oldest to preschool and our car read 17 degrees outside but I know with the wind chill it is in the single digits. Brrrrrr!!! I was thinking back to when I was a kid in Wisconsin and my mom drove me to school, how…

I heard some sad news today when I dropped my youngest off at preschool. One of the boys in his class was recently diagnosed with a rare childhood brain cancer and is really sick.   It hit me very hard as I know this child. He was in class with my other son last year…