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December 7, 2017

Sentence a Day, 11.2017

Sweet friends, Here we are again with another post in the “Sentence a Day” series. And as I type this we are already into the last month of this crazy-fast year. I just don’t know how it’s possible that I am writing my last sentences for 2017. These days I don’t dare blink for fear […]

Filed Under: Family and Friends, Life and Style, Reviews and Reflection Tagged With: #Hiking, #Retirement, #SentenceaDay, #Substitutelibrarian, #Thanksgiving

November 2, 2017

Sentence a Day, 10.2017

Dear ones, Welcome and thank you for spending a few moments with me today. Sharing my “Sentence a Day” for the month of October with some of the bestest bloggers you’d ever want to follow. Hope that after you read about my busy month, you will hop around to read about the months of my […]

Filed Under: Family and Friends, Life and Style, Love Yourself Tagged With: #Germany, #GYPOStyleChallenges, #MensSeniorBaseballLeagueWorldSeries, #Phoenix, #SentenceaDay, #Substitutelibrarian, #TheShaggyDog

October 22, 2017

Spiritual Sundays: Children’s Books about Loss

Sweet friends, Thank you for coming by. Today, I am sharing some children’s books that deal with difficult topics - loss, death, grief. You may remember that early in the school year I subbed in the school library of a friend of mine. Pat had been diagnosed with Stage IV stomach cancer which lead to […]

Filed Under: Reviews and Reflection Tagged With: #Bookreviews, #Children'sbooks, #Death, #Grief, #Loss, #ReviewsandReflection, #Separation, #Substitutelibrarian, #TheGoodbyeBook, #TheInvisibleString

September 15, 2017

My Fashion Haus: Sub Librarian Looks, 9.14.2017

  Fashionistas and teaching friends, Opening My Fashion Haus for a quick review of a week’s worth of sub librarian looks. One of the perks of being back to school is getting to dress up-ish for work. I say dress up-ish because there’s nothing very fancy about anything in my closet. So dressing up for […]

Filed Under: Fashion Forays Tagged With: #Dressup, #Fashion, #Fashionista, #Fashionoverfifty, #GYPO, #GYPOStyleChallenges, #MyFashionHaus, #Retirement, #Substitutelibrarian

September 7, 2017

Sentence a Day, 8.2017

Hello, girls! Glad you are here for another Sentence a Day review and link-up. Our group of participants in this series is steadily growing by one or two bloggers a month. But there’s always room for more friends to join us. If you are interested, please let me know in a comment below and I […]

Filed Under: Family and Friends, Life and Style Tagged With: #familyandfriends, #Harvey, #Hero, #LifeandStyle, #ReDiscoverME, #Retirement, #SentenceaDay, #Substitutelibrarian, #Weeding

August 20, 2017

Spiritual Sunday: Valleys and Peaks, 8.20.2017

Sweet friends, It has been awhile since I have posted on a Sunday but today’s the day! Don’t know about you but this week was an emotional roller coaster ride for me. One moment, my heart was filled with gladness, the next moment I felt as if the wind had been knocked out of me. […]

Filed Under: My Little Miracles, Reviews and Reflection, Uncategorized Tagged With: #Ada'sViolin. #OutoftheDump, #Bookreviews, #littlemiracles, #MyLittleMiracles, #ReDiscoverME, #Retirement, #SpiritualSunda, #Substitutelibrarian, #TexasBluebonnetAward, #ValleysandPeaks

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OOTDs and SIAs: My Fashion Haus 07.2020
In what felt like the blink of an eye, I have gone from full-time wife to my sweet husband, hands-on mom to my two beautiful daughters and elementary school librarian to a retired, empty nester with lots of time on my hands. Join me on my journey to rediscover who I am. Glad you are here...

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