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Say Yes to Yearning…a Widow’s guide to Valentine’s **Happy to contribute to Tulsa Moms! A few weeks ago my friend sent me these texts: So, yes, I have the greatest friends in the world. They know me. They know that while this could be potentially upsetting, it is what I want to hear. Say hisContinue reading “Say Yes to Yearning”

Proud to have been asked to contribute to Tulsa Moms! Grief’s Broken Compass by Jen Farley     St. Patrick’s Cathedral, NYC Lighting a candle for dad.   Nothing will make you more grateful for technology than a teen driver in your family. From plugging in an address to maps to tracking their locations, momContinue reading “Grief’s Broken Compass”

My little sister reached out to me in July of 2017 and told me to just listen to this guy, Ryan Montbleau, and tell her it doesn’t sound like Shane. She said she had this one particular song on repeat for the last week. I am going to urge you all to go listen andContinue reading “Warning Bell, The Wonder of a Legacy”

He covers me with his feathers and under His wings we find refuge. Psalms 91:4 An opportunity to share comes along once in a while. Mostly just with my students or a friend who is hurting. Well, a year ago, my longtime friend Londa asked me to share at a women’s event at her church.Continue reading “Thanks be!”

Yesterday was a professional development day for the teachers in our district. My sister and I taught something ‘google-y’ as we tend to like to do. It’s fun and usually well-received by our peers. It’s practical information that I pray teachers will use as soon as today when they get back to class. Some ofContinue reading “Donuts With Dads”

So many things come to mind when someone asks me how my summer is going. I want to say it’s good. We have spent some time relaxing, which we actually stink at, and some time doing our normal summer ‘list of things you can’t get accomplished during the school year’. I also want to sayContinue reading “The Navigation of Grief”

Here it is, my view on Mother’s Day morning. I am having my coffee and sobbing. I can’t quit. This day tears me up every year. Since becoming a mother, it always has. It has nothing to do with my own mother. She is great and deserves a parade in her honor. She single-handedly raisedContinue reading “And All That That Implies”

More… anniversaries, at least 30 or so birthday parties planned and executed with probably more flair than necessary friends over for dinner and fishing fight nights where the girls never even know the fight is on date nights to buy every Christmas gift on the list in one night being teased about basically everything vacations…lotsContinue reading “More, Please…”

Do You Want to PuNcH mE?? My sister, Ashley, often asks me this very questions. Like multiple times a week. Here’s when: When we are at the salon and a sweet older gentleman is playing solitaire on his huge laptop while waiting for his dear wife to finish getting her nails done. He is carefullyContinue reading “Do you want to punch me?”

Here we are, year three of Christmas decorating…Joseph is still MIA. When we unpacked our Christmas tubs after moving to our new home, the boys and I went on a man hunt. We had not touched this Christmas gear since that last December in Skiatook. Why was he gone? Ironically, we had been asking ourselvesContinue reading “Sissy, no Bud…Monica, no Chandler…”