Not too long ago when I was under some storm clouds, my dad sent me this “Life Lesson” from the movie Rocky Balboa. It helped.
Sometimes we forget who we are – somewhere in life things change and we stop being who we are & we let someone stick a finger in our face that tell us […]

I am fascinated by FAITH, and of learning anything/everything I can of it.  
 Five immediate goals/prayers for the future, near or near-distant:1. Kids enrolled in sports, dance, Spanish classes here in
Ensenada2. Friends/Girlfriends in my neighborhood / local community3. learning to shop locally. 4. yard landscaped and kids playground built here on our property, treehouses, […]

Emmer killed a scorpion with his cowboy boot.
Darren found a dead scorpion outside our apartment yesterday, on the step right outside our door. He mentioned it to the kids and Emmer said “I know. I killed it with my boot!”

Evan sent his first e-card to me this mother’s day. He wrote:Don’t expect anything fancy or anything super great

I just wanted to give you something from the heart…

Happy Mother’s Day!

Evan

Mom, you are the best mom in the whole world. I know that I did choose you and dad in heaven, and I would pick you over and over and over again.
Thanks for showing me the way in motherhood. Thanks for your unconditional love. Thanks for forgiving and forgetting so many things. Thanks for loving […]

I love this practical definition of a spiritual concept:
An atmosphere of faith… an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, humanness is understood‚ communication is open, and preferences are flexible… an atmosphere of tolerance and understanding, where the frailties of the individual are overlooked while seeing the potential and the possibilities and […]

Evie is now sitting, playing with toys, and eating (with her two bottom teeth).

Ella turned six today.
Both her brothers were so sweet to her today. Evan even laid off his new habit of big-brother teasing & spent the day randomly saying sweet things like ”I love you, Ella.” Emmer suprised me with his kindness and generosity: his second-cousin, Richard, had given him two bags of little cars last night […]

I heard one or two people say that they read my blog and thought it looked like I have a perfect life. I do have a keeper of a husband who also happens to far beyond an average dad, great with the budget, to whom I am a priority, and a looker of whom someone […]