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Christmas is a little more than a month away. Thanksgiving is this week. I’ve always wanted to remember my blessings and give thanks for them before I think about decorating for Christmas. But then, when some of those I number among my blessings showed up the weekend before Thanksgiving and were in the Christmas mood enough to help me do …
“Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.” – Sam Levenson Happy anniversary to me and to my husband. This picture happened many, many years ago when my husband and I said vows promising to love and honor each other forever. Then …
“Vacations with family are a time to create lasting memories, to laugh and to simply be together.” – John Wooden This week my husband and I went on our annual sibling trip with his brothers and their wives and sister and her daughter and son-in-law. We’ve been taking a trip like this in the fall for over ten years now. …
“Life’s a dance you learn as you go, sometimes you lead sometimes you follow, don’t worry about what you don’t know.” —John Michael Montgomery My granddaughter got married this weekend. I didn’t get a good picture of her and her groom on the wedding day, but here’s one at the rehearsal. The photographer took scads of pictures. I’ve seen some …
“A good sister-in-law is worth a thousand friends.” – Unknown I married young and have been a part of my husband’s family for many years. His family became my family. We just got back from a little vacation retreat with that family. I’ve written about our sibling trips here on One Writer’s Journal a couple of times before and shared …
Some years ago I shared parts of this post about how to know if you were famous. At the time, a kid at a book event had asked me “Are you famous?” I didn’t exactly know how to answer him. I was there trying to get people interested in some books I’d written. But does writing a book make one …
My post is a little late. Monday instead of Sunday, but we had a big day at our house yesterday with our sons and their families here to enjoy the beautiful day of Easter. They came to church too. One family drove three hours and were only about five minutes late for services. Now that’s being a special gift to …
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. ~Simone Signoret My husband and I just made it through another year together and celebrated an anniversary this weekend. Oh, the memories that an anniversary can bring to mind. We were very young when we met. Darrell was a …
I’m sorry I’m late posting the last installment of my Random Line Game. I know this is Thursday and not Wednesday, but I’ve been off the grid up in a little of the Appalachian area Aunt Perdie loved here in Kentucky. I had a few days to enjoy the beauty of the hills with the fall decorated trees covering the …
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. ~Jacques Yves Cousteau Did you miss me? Don’t tell me if you didn’t. 🙂 We took off for a week at Amelia Island with a couple of our kids and families. So fun to walk on the beach every morning with my daughter and enjoy …