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September 30, 2019

Reading: Stepping Outside My Comfort Zone, 09.2019

  Had high hopes for this Stepping Outside My Comfort Zone series/link-up but it didn’t take off like I imagined.  Seems like doing something new, uncomfortable, unfamiliar would be so good for all of us to try now and then.  And taking it a step further by sharing about ways we have stretched ourselves could […]

Filed Under: Reviews and Reflection Tagged With: #Cady, #Camila, #KimONeill, #Lauren, #LifeAfterRetirement, #Lucia, #Medium, #Reading, #Spirits, #SteppingOutsideMyComfortZone

7 Things My Grandbabes Have Taught Me

September 10, 2017

7 Things My Grandbabes Have Taught Me

  Sweet friends, Happy Grandparents’ Day!  The idea for this post has been percolating in me for awhile.  After spending time this spring with Lucia and then Cadence, I realized both of my grandbabes have taught me so much.  About living. About what’s really important in life.  As a mommy, I was so caught up […]

Filed Under: Family and Friends, Reviews and Reflection Tagged With: #Brennyn, #Cadence, #CadenceEllie, #Cady, #Daughters, #Family, #familyandfriends, #Gaba, #grandbabes, #Granddaughters, #Grandma, #Lauren, #Lessons, #Lucia, #LuciaCarolina, #Mimi, #Plumpies, #PrinceCharming, #Retirement, #ReviewsandReflection

Sentence a Day, 7.2016

August 4, 2016

Sentence a Day in July

Amigas mia, So glad you stopped by.  Otherwise I would be sitting here talking to myself! Can you believe July has come and gone?  I mean really.  Where did it go?  Let’s find out what I did with my month.  I tell you, this post really holds me accountable.  Drove from El Paso to Albuquerque […]

Filed Under: Family and Friends, Life and Style, Love Yourself, Uncategorized Tagged With: #Birthdays, #Brennyn, #Cady, #Lauren, #Lucia, #Retirement, #SentenceaDay, Uncategorized

June 21, 2016

What I’m Doing Currently, June 2016: Choose Happy Link-Up

Hey, gals! How’s your week going so far?  I am enjoying this second week of summer vacation!  I am feeling so productive as I continue with my spring cleaning.  PC and I continue to amp up our workouts.   Got my hairs cut – all of them! And my babies got together in Houston and […]

Filed Under: Family and Friends, Fashion Forays, Life and Style, Love Yourself, Uncategorized Tagged With: #21DayFix, #Beachbody, #Cady, #Create28, #Currently, #HopeFilledLiving, #Jambalaya, #Lucia, #Springcleaning, #TheAdventuresofaShrinkingPrincess, Uncategorized

June 14, 2016

My Little Miracles 6.13.16: Monday Moments in Gratitude Link-up

Sweet friends, It is mid-morning Monday and I am enjoying my first real day of summer vacation.  It is beautiful outside and I am eager to get my day started but wanted to share my little miracles from the past week as I link-up with Shauncey at Simply Shaunacey for her “Monday Moments of Gratitude”. […]

Filed Under: Family and Friends, My Little Miracles Tagged With: #Cady, #Lucia, #MishapsandMayhemofaSolitaryLife, #MyLittleMiracles, #PrinceCharming, #Retirement, #SimplyShaunacey

May 16, 2016

My Little Miracles 5.16.16: Monday Moments in Gratitude Link-up

Friends, I am writing this from the San Antonio airport where I have a two-hour layover before getting home to El Paso at 7:30 tonight.  It is wet and rainy here just as it was in Houston when we took off this afternoon.  But poor El Paso can’t get a drop of rain.  We have […]

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