This evening the lyrics to "So Amazing" by Luther Vandross are playing in my head and I have this overwhelming sense of purpose. I feel like I am finally walking into my destiny. I am finally using the gift that God gave me and I can't really explain how extremely grateful I feel right now. I am grateful that God allowed me to live long enough to accept the gift that he gave me and to really begin to use it.

     Just a couple of weeks ago, I was telling a friend that I needed to…

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Kindergarten Graduation Pictures

There he is, my little graduate!  The kids all sang songs and Matt, of course, only participated in about half of it.  He told me he was tired of them…

Rookie Homeschooling a first year Preschooler

Three Lessons learned by a rookie homeschool teacher! It took a full school year to figure out what works best for me & my daughter.

Thank God for summer! Little does my daughter know but I have put her on a summer break from planned homeschooling. I need time to regroup and apply the lessons I learned to a more productive…

A Graduation Gift: $5 Amazon GC Giveaway

Summer summer summertime! (summertime) Time to kick back and rewind...

Today Matthew is having his "Moving Up" ceremony (from kindergarten), so to celebrate I'm giving one of YOU a $5 Amazon gift card!

First, let me tell you how I'm able to do this. This isn't a sponsored giveaway. A while ago I signed up for…

In work today for a briefing about my Return To Work. I don't like it. I don't want to. You can't make me. Sadly the Halifax and an extensive list of direct debits can. 

Challenge Of The Day: Part One

Get Up, Get Ready And Go Out

A pleasing start - as if to order, The Poop had a lie in until 7:20am, a time until which she has slept maybe three times since birth. God bless black out blinds. Her laziness enabled me to go for a run, have…

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If I'm the self-proclaimed Queen of Attracting Stupid Situations, then my husband is without a doubt the King of Attracting Stupid Situations.  (Not sure what that says about us being attracted to each other, but anyway.....)  I swear, between the two of us, we are an accident waiting to happen at any given moment.  The latest case in point?  This past weekend when…

Good weather. Proper dead good weather. Like 'not only are the windows are open but I've taken me thermal vest off I've dug out a pair of flip flops and I'm sleeping in the nud' sort of weather. In the UK, this is, understandably, cause for great excitement. Cue much comparing of our temperatures to those in Spain, gratuitous tabloid photos of nineteen year old girls frolicking on Brighton beach and hosepipe bans being dished out left, right and centre.

It is…

About a year ago I wrote this post about how to make the most out of your school volunteer efforts. D2 wasn't enrolled in pre-school yet, so…

 We all know that pregnancy is supposed to last nine months. Before pregnancy, when I asked someone what month she was in the answer was simple, second, fourth, eighth…. When you're pregnant it somehow changes to weeks. I'm not sure if this is some new method of counting which is more accurate, but we no longer count months, but instead, weeks.Since I was pregnant with twins, I knew that it was quite possible I would give birth well…

Do you know that the orange colour in pumpkins comes from a pigment called beta carotene.Beta carotene has been known as an immunity booster especially in the elderly.Some studies have also shown that increased consumption of beta carotene can reduce the risk of cancer.It is also well known for it's anti-aging and antioxidants properties.

Today's…

Wordless Wednesday: Silly Baby Faces…

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Ok, so I finally am caught up in the Angry Bird madness.  My husband and son have been playing for months, then my youngest joined them, and now I am hooked.  What is it about those crazy birds?  My oldest has already decided that his birthday party will have an Angry Bird theme, and is wanting some kind of cake with the birds and pigs.  Yea right.  I'll get right on that.  Because I sew and don't bake, I could have a problem.  But I did make these cute party favor masks that have been a…

I love sharing Harvey Mackay articles... but I swear on all things lovely and amazing that I had an epiphany while reading this one so it's quite special to me. Like most people, I enjoy spending time with my husband and friends. As my 30th year is slowly inching closer to my 31st, I feel like I'm getting closer to the woman I want to be with each passing day and so grateful to be genuinely happy. I'm so thankful for all of life's little situations and…