WISH I COULD BE HERE MORE OFTEN, BUT LIFE IS SO BUSY, BUT A GREAT BUSY :) HAPPY DAY TO ALL !! :)

My sister Tammie & her husband are very hard workers and never take time for themselves, never get to have a date night, or do things just for them. They are the ultimate "givers", and very rarely accept a thing. They have a 2 year old little tyke ~ Jamie, and he's our adorable nephew and we love him to pieces, so tonight we decided that they both needed a time out ~ a "give".

We called them up and told them to come over, as we needed… Continue

I received this poem a long time ago, and I'm sure many of you have read it before, but today I came across it again in my files, reread it again & again, and because it has had a profound impact on my life, the way I view things, life in general, etc., I decided that today was the day to "pay it forward" to as many family members, friends, acquaintances, etc., that I could think of...…

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Because we have been away on vacation for the past 2 weeks, we really missed several couples, who are great friends of ours, as we are always doing something together, whether it be all of us together, just the gals shopping or playing tennis, or the guys going golfing or what have you. We are always "in the loop" when it comes to the goings on of one another. 2 of the couples are my best friends from University, and the other couple are friends from when Jason and I first met. A… Continue

Another day at the beach ~ gotta love it :)

We've been flip flopping all over the Eastern Seaboard, with hardly a plan ~ just going where we get the urge, or the road takes us :) We have been fortunate to have been to quite a few places in the past 2 weeks, but I think the beach has to be the best part of a vacation, for us, anyhow :)



The smell of the fresh air ? The waves that tease by coming forward, and pulling back ? The softness of the sand that instantly conforms to you -… Continue

We are still on vacation and we are all giving in some way or another every single day, and I'm trying to blog as much as I can, even though the days are long, as we are up quite early and go non stop all day, until late at night, but it's fun, and we are all "spent" at the end of the day and sleep like logs :). We are all staying at my Aunt & Uncle's home for a few days in Morganton, North Carolina. Tomorrow we are heading out to Atlantic City ~ our final destination. We had great fun… Continue

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Our Cape Cod family vacation was all about creating memories for both Jason & me again, and our children that will last a lifetime. I have wonderful childhood memories of long days playing in the sun soaked sand on a warm Cape Cod beach, the cool afternoon breeze soothing my slightly burned skin. I can remember thinking that I did not want the day to end, but alas, my eyelids usually went down with the sun, from the sheer exhaustion of a

day filled with the joys that… Continue

1. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Father’s Day.

2. June 19, 1910, the first Father’s Day, was celebrated in Spokane, Washington, after Sonora Dodd convinced the mayor that fathers such as hers, a widowed farmer who raised his six children, deserved their own

day of recognition.

3. Not until 1972 did President Richard M. Nixon sign the holiday into law. Father’s Day is now observed…

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Today my gifts were not mindful, nor planned, I just "did it" !!, and as I sit here now, it really feels like it was all good ''stuff" !! :) ~ I wrote a note of appreciation to our mailman, with a Tim Horton's gift card, put it in an envelope & will leave it in the box on Monday morning…

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