Doing my best to help LarryD take over the internet one meme at a time. It’s been almost a year since we returned to my beloved Texas. There really is no place on Earth which sits so softly on the heart.  Oh, Texas, how I love thee.  Let me begin to count the ways: 1.  March burst into color this year and my heart filled with joy.  It was time for bluebonnets. I can’t tell you how much I love... Read more

Earlier today I thought out loud in writing.  On Facebook I wrote  “Just found out that there’s a therapeutic horseback riding place in Wylie with special saddles for JRA patients. Now to figure out how to pay for it…………..” and an amazing thing happened.  People offered to help foot the bill.  It wasn’t why I wrote it, to ask for money.  With a little sacrifice and juggling around, we could cover it.  Not easily, but we could. I was overcome... Read more

I finally figured out what to hang on the dining room wall. Go ahead and Pin it….you know you want to! Read more

Congratulations to Lauren from Magnify the Lord.  You win the $25 credit to This Cloth House!!!!!   For everyone else, I hope you will patronize this Etsy shop.  She has great stuff and has been a delight to work with! Read more

As you go about your day today, please find a moment to say a prayer for those lost and the loved ones they left behind.  17 years may seem like an awfully long time to the rest of the country, but for those of us who were in Oklahoma City that morning, the memory is still painful and still fresh. Also, please remember in Thanksgiving all of those who survived, including my beloved Computer Guy.  I will be forever grateful... Read more

Have you seen this story?  The one about the crazy thing women are doing to lose weight for their weddings?  You haven’t?  Here, read this….I’ll wait. Brides-to-be looking to shed that final 10, 15 or 20 pounds in order to fit into their dream wedding gown have taken a controversial approach to crash dieting that involves inserting a feeding tube into their noses for up to 10 days for a quick fix to rapid weight loss. The K-E diet, which... Read more

I told you that we were getting to round 2, and here it is! When I first asked for Mother’s Day give away participants, I didn’t know how many takers we would have.  I was so thrilled when our next one was the first email I received.  I was even more excited when I went to her site and saw what she sells. This Cloth House is the brain child of Rachel from Michigan.  I am in love with her... Read more

Still here helping LarryD conquer the internet meme.  Join the revolution! 1.The jewelry fundraiser to benefit Reece’s Rainbow is still going on!  It’s a great deal.  You get a gorgeous Mother’s Day gift and you help fund special needs adoptions, saving children from a living hell in foreign orphanages.  What’s stopping you from helping out?  You know you need a gift.  You know jewelry works for almost every mom.  You know those kids need homes. Head on over here for... Read more

stichinrose, you win the Viola Earrings from Simply You! (I have those earrings and they are gorgeous!)  Congratulations! Email me your email address at shovedtothem at yahoo dot com.  I’ll forward it on to Scottie! Those of you who didn’t win, why not go ahead and pick up those pretty pieces for yourself as part of the Reece’s Rainbow benefit?  Up to 30% of the purchase price will go toward directly funding the adoptions of special needs children!  Just make... Read more

  Plump baby hands reach up and grab my face.With squeals and croaky laughter,she pulls me to her for a jubilant baby kiss.Crooning love, sparkling eyes, trilling babblesSlobber runs down my cheeks.Joy unconfined. Read more