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  • Homeschool Mom Get Away!

    Are you a homeschool mom?  Are you curious about homeschooling?  The Homeschool Winter Summit just might be what you are needing right now.  It’s always refreshing to get away every now and then and refocus on your calling as a homeschool mom. I attended as a mentor a couple of years ago and served in…

  • An Idea To Get Your Closet Ready for 2017!

    Hi Friends! Do you like to start the New Year by decluttering and getting organized?  I’ve already started on some decluttering.  I  love starting the New year by getting my house organized and cleaned from top to bottom!  One of the areas I have worked on this week is in my closet.  I think you…

  • 10 Ways to Enjoy An Empty Nest Christmas

    After spending many fun filled years of making Christmas special for your busy family, now it’s just you and your husband.  Or, it may just be you and no one else.  Christmas can still be just as fun and festive, just in a different way.  Children always make Christmas special!  Now, with the children gone,…

  • An Empty Nest Christmas!

    Merry Christmas! Are you in the middle of the empty nest years and wondering how to make Christmas special for your empty nest home? When Jim and I married in 1980, we pulled together our Christmas traditions from our homes and meshed them together and came up with our own.  Before we had children, Christmas…

  • Speaking Up For Christ!

    I wrote a short devotional for Denise Hughes who has an amazing writing ministry called, Deeper Waters.  She is doing a study in the book of Ephesians now and she asked me to write one on today’s study.   Be sure to check out her ministry at www.Deeperwaters.us! Day 29 ~ Ephesians 6:16-20 ~ Freedom…

  • The Graceland Tour

    When in Memphis, you have to visit Graceland, the home of Elvis Presley!  The first time I visited was about 16 years ago and it was a fast trip.  We were just passing through and decided to stop.  We walked through very fast and went on our way.  This time, we took our time.  The…

  • The Guest House at Graceland

    One day last year as I was driving and listening to Elvis Radio on Sirius XM Radio, I heard  about plans for a new hotel that would be built and the opening day would be in October of 2016. I did some research and thought what fun that would be to be able to tour…

  • My Elvis Crush!

    After a recent trip to Memphis, Tennessee and touring Graceland, many memories of growing up with a major crush on Elvis popped up.  Before I share about our actual trip, I had to set up how serious my crush was.  Here we go….. I was six years old when I first noticed Elvis Presley. I…

  • Your Time Will Come

      For the past few years my hubby and I have been able to do some things that we never were able to do when we were younger due to time, finances and the different schedules of us and our kiddos.  What fun it has been to be able to just get up and go…

  • Loving Your Extended Family Members

    Today’s post will cover three days of articles on the subject of the empty nest years.  I try to take weekends off.  This one will cover, Saturday, Sunday and Monday for my challenge of Writing for 31 Days.  As you can see, I’ve been writing on, Making a Full House a Home For Two. I…