We have a Summer Tanager who has taken up residence near our deck. As they are prone to do, he is flying into our windows, hitting them with...

…does time fly! I mean, really. Seriously. It is exponentially faster, almost by the day. My grandson is 16!! How can someone be 16 who wa...

We have our camper parked at an annual site near Mark Twain Lake so that when we do have time to get away, we don't have to spend a lot ...

As is my pattern, I wanted to use my new Cricut Imagine IMMEDIATELY for a layout. Our son had just returned from helping out a couple of day...

  View Full Album Our son Mark has beautiful box gardens this year. He shared some of the produce with us, and I used his Romaine, ci...

Having such fun with my new Cricut Imagine, that lets me print AND cut, with the existing Cricut cartridges and/or the new Imagine cartri...

I was born 64 years ago today. That doesn’t sound so bad. I am, as of today, 64 years old. That sounds bad. That sounds terrible. That fe...

It's just very special when your siblings are also your best friends, and that is the case with my brother Keith, my sister Janene, and ...

Among the songs that Conner participated in were "Eye of the Tiger" and "Celebration."

Alyssa is in three select choirs in Ozark High School. At the spring concert, the Women's Choir and the Chorale (which includes all memb...

Dawson, Me, Sharida, Alyssa Conner, Mark, Me, Tory Cards are always so special for me.   Yes, that’s me. Such a blessed mom. Every Moth...

     Since my blog is a safe place for ME to record MY feelings, I am going to actually “blog” my thoughts on some observations that have ra...

Directing our church's VBS is one of my most challenging but rewarding activities. This year's theme is Beach Bash, so I put toge...

After a fantastic service at RiverOaks Church, celebrating the resurrection of Jesus, we enjoyed a traditional Easter afternoon, with dinner...

As we mature (a phrase my dermatologist is fond of using, even though I have asked him to stop beginning sentences with it), we become mo...

This is my beautiful granddaughter who lives on the other side of the state from me! Her mom took pictures and emailed them to me. Beautiful...

I’m very competitive. If I’m in a class, I like to make an A. Wait—I don’t only want an A, but I want my PERCENTAGE to be higher than anyone...

~Photos Courtesy of 323 Photography by Jen Peterson~ We were thrilled to attend the Debut Concert of Last Ones First, at RiverOaks Church. T...

This is Conner's first year to be in a school choir, so this was great experience for him, to compete at districts. He is also currently...

Today, March 4, 2011, marks the 55th anniversary of a significant event in my personal family history. On that date, my father acknowledged ...

Some years ago I made these notes in my Bible Study folder. Unfortunately, I did not record the source. I have referred to this on several o...

This was a fun digital page to do, with such a beautiful subject in the photo--my sweet daughter.

My littlest grandchild lives on the opposite side of the state, so I don't get to see him as often as I would like. He called to tell me...

View Full Album Recently I enjoyed teaching a lesson in Kidz ROC about love—the serious, Christ-like kind of love. We talked about how that...

This event took place last April, when Dawson turned four. I just created the digital scrapbook page today. His party was so cute, and aft...

I am blessed with two beautiful granddaughters, both 17 1/2 (I cannot believe they are both young ladies now). Alyssa lives in a different p...

Tory and several other youth from RiverOaks Church went sledding at Forest Park in St. Louis. She is SO beautiful! It was fun to do this qui...

Since “catching up” on all my photos a couple of years ago, and because I have a Hobby Room where I can keep my supplies out all the time,...

During the historical weather event referred to as the Blizzard of 2011 (Jan 31-Feb 1), the accumulation varied extremely within the same lo...

When I was around 30 years of age, my pastor made a statement from the pulpit that caught my attention. What he said seemed to me a profound...

In the early 90’s, a group of recipes "made the rounds" that were dishes made with Bisquick and called “Impossible…whatever.”  T...

Found this recipe in a magazine, with a note that its original source was an old church cookbook—so I knew it had to be good…it is!!   ...

This is a traditional, paper scrapbooking page I did for my regular album. Event took place December 5, I created the scrapbook page in Jan...

During Kristy's school year, Mark does a lot of the cooking for their family. He brings his creative nature into the kitchen and often m...

Looking back through some of the devotional thoughts that have had special meaning for me during the last couple of years, I came across som...

One of our many Christmas Traditions is family pictures by the tree. This "required" part of the Christmas Celebration was passed ...

At our church’s Christmas Eve service, our Pastor/Son Mark sang “Joseph’s Lullaby.” Before he sang, Mark shared that fifteen years ago, at...

I admit to my age...I’m 63. That means a lot of things (for another blog piece, at another time). But among those things is the fact that I ...

Caught up with holiday preparations, spent a little time today scrapbooking (traditional, paper). My brother recently visited his daughter ...

Most of our snack recipes are traditional, some having been served during our holiday season each year, for more than 40 years. We usually t...

Fun digital layout, using FotoFusion software.

I am so blessed. There are truly not very many things, at this stage of my life, about which I can say, “I have always wanted, but never h...

The longer I live, the more I love learning a new truth, or perhaps a reminder of an old truth from a fresh perspective. This week’s Bible s...