Breakfast is easily my favorite meal of the day. And as I have become healthier, I have diversified my breakfast offerings. I do appreciate variety, but by far, my favorite breakfast is overnight cereal. (Notice I didn’t say oatmeal.) I have tried a wide variety of overnight cereals. Yes, there is the standard overnight oatmeal. But did you know you […]

I don’t make New Year’s resolutions anymore because I believe you can make a goal any time you like. But I do make goals, and I prefer to call them declarations. So here are four goals/declarations for 2021 and specifically for this month. (Please note that they are written as if I have already accomplished them because that’s how I […]

Welcome to 2021! This year, I am committed to a year-long blogging challenge in addition to a fitness and gratitude challenge. You will have to watch my social media for the fitness and gratitude challenge because I plan to focus on my blogging challenge here. Feel free to jump in and post your response in the comments. I am focusing […]

Since New Year’s Eve is practically over here… We were supposed to visit my brother and sister-in-law today, but my mom was a bit under-the-weather and exhausted from her procedure, so we stayed home. I just got done watching two Disney movies with my daughter–Moana and Big Hero 6. I had never seen either. We had a blast. Before that, I had […]

Oh, there’s so much that makes me smile! So many, many things. Let me post a few pictures of what makes me smile.   This is only the beginning!

I realize I’m a day behind, but in this case, I’m so glad I got to wait to write this! First of all, my younger self always dreamed of being able to work with actors. Granted, at the time, the actors with whom I was enamored were old-time actors and actresses (most of whom had passed on even as I […]

This is one that frankly spoke to me because every struggle should be an opportunity to grow. In this world, we are faced with struggles, and if anyone claims to have no struggles, I would question whether they are living. Even for Christians, we know that God said we would have struggles in this world, but we are to take […]

I don’t think I would have been able to answer this question before this year. Oh, I would have given the typical answers. “I want to be a kind, thoughtful person who lives for God.” Sure, that’s nice and all, but it doesn’t honestly explain the kind of person I want to be. I desire to be of service to […]

This one is not easy for me because our Christmas Eves change from year to year. I don’t think we really have traditions that remain from year-to-year. Except putting out milk and cookies for Santa! Yes, we do it every year! When my daughter was younger, it was something that she enjoyed doing. She still likes doing it for fun, […]

I have learned not to make plans for too far in the future, and when one speaks of hopes, I can only hope the person does not mean some kind of ethereal hope that is nothing but apple-pie-in-the-sky.  I have visions, dreams, and more for the future, and I have declared various things that I am convinced will happen. But […]