Sincerely Me

My girls need a visual reminder to keep up with their chores and after searching for chore charts at the store and on line, we couldn’t find anything that really met our needs. So I started thinking about ways to make my own chore chart. ...

Oh blackberry, what will I do without you. You were there for my every call. You brought a joy to my life through texting. You kept my children’s pictures. You had my high scores. Without you life will not be the same. You carried around my life. My schedule was kept in your calendars m...

Claudette Fioré used to turn heads and break hearts. She relished the glamorous Hollywood lifestyle because she had what it takes: money, youth, fame, and above all, beauty. But age has withered that beauty, and a crooked accountant has taken her wealth, leaving the proud widow penniless and...

Summary: Maya’s Green Tip for the Day: Recycled fashion is one of the most fun ways to go green. A pair of jeans could be transformed into a denim skirt. A sweater into a vest. A bunch of old ties into a dress. A blanket into a poncho. Accessorize it in new way–with beads, buttons, appliqué...

Recently my oldest daughter came up to me and said “mom you do some really important things.” I started thinking about what she said and she is right. What she fails to realize is that the things that she thinks are important are not the important things that I really do. The most important thi...

At Last . . . The Circle Reborn   The story of how Thomas Hunter first entered the Black Forest and forever changed our history began at a time when armies were gathered for a final battle in the valley of Migdon. Green is a story of love, betrayal, and sweeping reversals set within...

Leaving Carolina by Tamara Leigh Piper Wick left her hometown of Pickwick, North Carolina, twelve years ago, shook the dust off her feet, ditched her drawl and her family name, and made a new life for herself as a high-powered public relations consultant in LA. She’s even “engaged to be ...

I was tagged for a meme today. Thanks, Lara, It’s been awhile. lol The rules are simple, I have to tell you 10 things about me and then tag 10 other people to do the same. So Here it goes: I love fall. All of it. The chill, the colors, the leaves, sweaters. Fall is definitely my favorite t...

Tonight the Drama Queen and I made dust bunnies. We got the recipe from 3-2-1 Penguins Trouble on Planet Wait-Your-Turn. It’s in the bonus features. It looked pretty yummy and consists of simple ingredients that we already had here at home so I thought, why not. I didn’t get any pics before but t...

What is our nation doing. It’s destroying itself.  The senate passed the Hate Crimes legislation which is going to cause everyone to have to watch what they say lest the Fed’s show up on your door step. What happened to Free speech. Our countries constitution is being flushed down the drain ...

I was honored by friend Ida Red (aka Richele) over at Under the Golden Apple Tree with this sweet blog award. I know I don’t fully deserve it but I’ll take it anyway. lol Honestly though you should make sure to go over and check out her blog cause its really awesome. The Blog Award Rules Are: ...

My little Boo has a “boyfriend” at church (as she calls him) Z. They are very cute and really do play well together. The other night Boo woke up around 3am crying. I came in  to check on her. Apparently she had a dream that just really upset her. She said “Mommy Z broke my heart.” I was like...

Many married women genuinely want to feel more desire toward their husbands.  But while sex before marriage was hard to resist, now resisting seems like all they do. In her new book, Barbara Wilson shows how couples can suffer for years from the “invisible bonds” of previous relationsh...

Sorry I’ve not blogged much lately. Things need to get done and I feel like I’ve not gotten enough time in the day to do them. It’s C R  A  Z  Y  here. But I promise things will get into a routine and I will be able to try to blog even if its once a week. So if I disappear occ...

This is an awesome book that shows how to not just read the Bible but get the most out of your Bible study. It shows you how to dig deep into the Word and use the tools that we have to help you to really get in and study. I recommend this to anyone who would like to learn how to really get into t...

I just updated my blog to an autumn theme. If you are viewing it in Firefox it looks fine but if you are viewing it in IE you will see not only my blog header but the black blog title. I can not figure out how to get it to disappear where it doesn’t show up. Until then I’m leaving it alone becaus...

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Fall represents a time of change for me. Every year the leaves start to change color and the air gets cooler. So during this time of change there will be some changes taking place around my house and my blog. Not any major change but something simple.  I’m going to be working on my blog temp...

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Practical instruction for living a confident life in a world filled with chaos and crisis. This book came at a perfect timing for me. Things the Lord has been speaking to me about was confirmed in this book. I have found this book to be such an inspiration and filled with good scripture to ...

I can not believe that I haven’t posted much lately. Time keeps flying by and before I know it another week is gone. I’ve been trying to clean out and pray and read and spend time with the kids. It just seems I don’t have enough time in the day to get everything that needs to be, done. I’ve been ...

I am moving my I ♥ faces challenges to my photo blog. So click here to see this week’s I ♥ Faces challenge.    

  Last month I started a photography blog just to showcase some of my favorite pics that I have taken. It’s pretty much just photos so don’t expect a whole lot of descriptions and words in the posts. For those of you who follow me to see the photo’s I post check out my other blog HERE. You ...

Original: First I did an automatic adjustment in PSPX2. Then I adjusted the white levels to make the image even lighter then I added different colors or filters and cropped the image. Here are the different ones that I did. Sepia   Black and White The next one I added a glam...

To see more entries for this weeks I heart faces contest click on the I Heart Faces button above.

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I decided to try my hand at I heart Faces fix-it friday entries. So here is the pic before: and here is the photo after: I used the blemsih remover to clean up the babies face and then added the glamour filter to soften it up. I use Corel Paint Shop Pro X2 as my photo editor. To see mo...