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Hit by a creative bug I began working on a happiness jar, a jar that can be filled throughout the year with happy moments. It felt good to be creative and allow myself the time to do something I enjoyed, but within that creative flash my attention began to wander, and inside that wandering appeared thoughts of my sister.
Every year her excitement through the holidays was contagious, and my mind...

Making a list for 2016
With my word to help define the year and the intentions I aspire to achieve I approach this new year with resolute excitement. And isn't that how we should feel, excited about the prospect of what is to come, of things we can do and all the possibilities which arise in a New Year?
Working on my word for the year. If you have not tried, here and here are a few places to...

No matter what the situation is… close your eyes and think of all the things you could be grateful for in your life right now ~Deepak Chopra
It starts simple, with a wish to make a difference, and to begin…
The morning set about in a hurried rush as I dashed off to pick up my mother. Unlike my usually slow Sunday mornings, this day pushed me forward with a catch. A thirty-minute drive provides...

 
When we chose to name him Ryan, it was a name I had loved beyond the course of my pregnancy. Writing it constantly on a paper practicing each stroke.
Ryan was a sweet and quiet little man. Please and thank you was a part of every sentence he spoke. He was my partner in all things reading, play-doh and Nintendo. Loved the movies Aladdin, Jungle Book and Fern Gully. His favorite book was “If you...

Decorating for Christmas has always been a favorite for me, since the kids were really young, to surprising them when they returned from school, and after 30 years of accumulating gifts, creating crafts and hand picking my favorites, looking back, I love all the stories they have to tell.
Each year I haul up the many totes filled with holiday decorations, a workout in itself, place them on the...