Over the past couple of years I have attended five or six events at Conseco Fieldhouse, but last Saturday was the first time that any of those happenings were sport related. Hubby and I were privileged to attend a marriage conference called Rekindling the Romance. Oh! You thought I meant a sports event, like with a ball and sweaty men… View Post

Hubby took our son on his first hunting trip last weekend.  They went south to a property owned by his uncles.  These are the hillbilly kinfolk from his dad’s side, not his mama’s hootenanny family. At first I was hesitant to let him go.  There are some safety issues with this family that give me cause for concern. I once witnessed hubby nearly… View Post

As a child, and throughout my teen years, I had a dream.  That dream was to be a helpmeet to my husband and stay-at-home mom with lots of children.  I remember being harassed by other kids, and one well-meaning school teacher, when asked what I wanted to be when I grew up.  My reply was always, “A mom!” “But what do you want… View Post

If you could invite any six people to a dinner party, who would you ask? This question was posed to me recently and coming up with the answer really stretched my brain. Since it is an imaginary scenario and quite unlikely that any of these people would actually show up at my dinner table, I decided to bend the rules… View Post

Email can be a blessing in so many ways.  I have kept in touch with family members that I normally don’t hear from for months at a time. I have become reacquainted with long lost friends.  I have saved lots of money on my phone bill. And for a while it added a romantic touch to my relationship with hubby.  That is until… View Post

I am pretty naive and fairly uninformed when it comes to some things.  For example, this is my fourth child, and it has been fourteen years since my first pregnancy, yet I am learning all kinds of things about the human body that I never knew. Rather than bore you with medical facts that are probably common knowledge to most people,… View Post