Category: God's Gifts
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A Special Boy
Wow, it’s hard to believe…eighteen years ago God blessed our family with a very special little boy, our grandson Austin. I was fortunate to be there when he was born. He was a premie, so we didn’t get to see him long before they whisked him from the room. I just remember the doctor holding…
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Special Olympics for Special People
My social media “memories” over the past few days have been filled with pictures and videos from several years ago. You see my grandson Austin, was born with Down Syndrome and has participated in the Special Olympics many times. As I’ve been remembering these moments over the past few days, I’ve also seen pictures and…
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A Little Travelin’ Music
Well, friends, I’m heading out on a business trip early this morning so today’s little blog is going to be, well, little 🙂 . Last night as I was packing and trying to wrap up emails and last-minute work tasks, a song popped into my head. It’s not a very well-known song but it’s such…
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Remembrance and Honor
I saw a post on social media yesterday by a veteran. It read:“This weekend is NOT for us vets. Don’t thank us. This weekend IS for our brothers and sisters who paid the ultimate price, who didn’t come home alive. THANK THEM.” There really isn’t much else I can add to that. Memorial Day is…
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Sporting the Red
Yesterday, if you read this little blog, you know that I was helping at church to make the fixings for strawberry shortcake. We’re serving these little gems after our services this morning. I must say, things went stellar and the homemade cakes, beautiful fresh strawberries, oh my, ya this is gonna be good 🙂 .…
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Three Day Weekend
The unofficial start of summer begins this weekend with Memorial Day. It’s a three-day weekend and many will be heading out of town, camping, headed to the beach, cookouts, you get the idea. It’s a time to enjoy family and friends and to celebrate the start of summer. I want to save my thoughts about…
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Fur Babies
I’ve shared here over the last few months how I’ve taken up walking one of our neighbor’s pups during the day. Toby is a handsome king charles spaniel and is just the sweetest boy. Well, he and his human Joe left for the season earlier this week. I missed saying goodbye to him as we…
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Midwest Sky
If you’ve been reading this little blog for the past few days you know that we traveled back home to celebrate our granddaughter’s graduation this past weekend. It’s been a great trip catching up with family and friends and of course the celebration of her big day! My husband and I had some time while…
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His Most Precious Gift
Today is graduation day for our granddaughter. The events of the last few weeks make today even more special than it would have been. If this is your first time reading this little blog or if you’ve been away from it, you can learn more about those events I’m mentioning in this post. We’re looking…
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The Little Things
A few years ago our granddaughter colored a picture for us. Like most kids she loves to color, now she’s on to the fancy books they make for even adults now. The crayons have been put aside for colored pencils, which now come in their own carrying case. Anyway, as I said our granddaughter colored…
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