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Spiritual Sunday: My Cross Wall, Part 4

Welcome, Friends, I have one eye on the TV as PC changes the channels between the Packers-Bears game and the Chiefs-Texans game, my other eye is switching between typing here and checking the points of my two fantasy football teams, Chicharones and Pale Pink Pork Bellies. Sensory overload! Today I want to the share three […]

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Spiritual Sunday: My Cross Wall, Part 3 and a My First Sponsored Link-Up

Happy Sunday! Hope this finds you relaxed and enjoying day 2 of a three-day weekend. I am back from the gym and we are cooling off before we hit the outlet mall sales this afternoon.  I am truly trying not to buy anything until the GYPO FallStyle 2015 challenge.  I’ll let you know how that […]

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Spiritual Sunday: My Cross Wall, Part 2

Happy last summer Sunday, I know summer isn’t officially over but as far as I am concerned, summer ends about the time school begins.  According to whomever decides such things, summer’s end comes on Wednesday, September 23 this year.  But at my house it ends tomorrow with the last day of August. I just don’t […]

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Categories: Life Style, Living Life, Rediscovering ME, Reviews and Reflection

First Monday’s Month in Review: Rewind July’s Numbers

Happy first Monday in August! Can you believe that it is already August? Where has the summer gone?  Just nuts.  Today I am linking up with my sweet Style Me Bloggers buddies Sarah at Foxy’s Domestic Side and Deena at Shoes to Shiraz to share our month of July recap in numbers posts.  For the June […]

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Happy Birthday, Brennyn Alexis, Your Momma Loves You!

 Sweet Friends, At exactly 10:14 p.m. on July 30, 1984 in the delivery room at the Millington Naval Air Station Hospital outside of Memphis, Tennessee, I met this little girl for the first time.  She wasn’t wearing the Mr. Potato Head glasses that evening or the above hand-me-down clothes.  Now that I think back, she […]

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Happy Birthday, Cady Coo, Your Mimi Loves YOU

Sweet Friends, Five years ago today at exactly 7:48 a.m., my life was changed forever when my granddaughter Cadence Ellie Pieper came into this world.  Every single day since the morning of July 28, 2010 has been better, brighter, happier and filled with more love than all of the days of my life before.  Cady […]

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