I want to share Big News with you. I absolutely love Big news. For some reason I get energized and excited and all beamy inside and out when there is Big news. It has to be good news though. Something or someone is beginning, ending, succeeding, breaking through or overcoming something big. Someone got well, […]
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Going from one year to another is the most difficult thing for me. Each year is just as painful as the last. As a mother I never wanted to go into a new year without my children and to have one child gone now makes it painful. Almost as though I don’t have a right
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The other day on my way home from physical therapy, aching and tired, I began to list in my head things I’m thankful for. When I got home I sat down to begin writing them down. The first item on the list, is and always has been, at least since I got them, my children.
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God wants us to be happy. That’s all it is really all about. That’s why God made the beautiful world, put on it and in it everything we would ever need to live, grow, create. God made people so that the things God made could be enjoyed and cared for. God also loves to hang
Here I am again, only this time I’m writing about Chloe’s cake. We have been watching a show called the Great British Bake Off. Chloe would like to bake all of the bakes from season one. Every weekend we also watch a show called, The Great British Baking Masterclass, where the judges bake their favorites
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Beach days beans and peaches birthdays and difficult goodbyes. Cheer me up with gladioli. One bean led to another and likewise with the peaches. Jam was sweet and snapping beans a much needed down-time. Grandpa must have his favorite cake as he has turned 81. Being that age scares him and makes him sit in
Valuable information here for picture book writers by Kathryn Evans.
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May 15th, 2017 I self-published my first children’s book, Elsie’s Easter. It is a wonderful feeling to have this project finished but also scary since I have been working on it three years and wasn’t sure what life would be like, post-publishing. I am however, overwhelmed with gratitude for how well my book has been
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For Jenny Stand up. Go outside. Take a walk And breathe in the scent of the earth. Breathe in the scent of all living things the aliveness of the soil and the spirit of Existence. Stand up. Go outside When it is dark And look at the sky. Breathe in the expanse the depth and
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It’s Scribble Picnic again. This week is ladder. I noticed that my Instagram account had received a following of over 400 people. It’s pretty amazing and really cool for me. I love seeing all the work being posted over there and love the interaction I’ve been having. It’s an inspiring place to go at the
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