My friend, Ashleigh, passed away Sept. 28, 2009. She was only 28 and left behind a husband and four young children (Sarah-5, Lucas and Alex-3, and Audrey-2). She had only been diagnosed with colon cancer for a month, but it was an aggressive and wide-spread cancer. She chose to fight back aggressively with chemo treatments,…
I had only recently gotten to know the Blaser family, when Clint passed away. Jackie is one of the moms on the MomTimeTV show, and the Blasers had generously offered their home for the filming of several episodes. Spending time in their home that day, I felt like I knew them. They seemed to have…
This fall, my heart was broken, not once, but twice in the same week as two of my friends were taken from their families. My heart broke as my friend, Ashleigh, a mother of 4 very young children lost a short battle with colon cancer. Later that week, I received word that Clint, the husband…
This idea has made it’s appearance in many Thanksgiving meals I’ve been involved in over the years. If you look closely, you can see my mini cornucopias in this post, and in this post. The cornucopias are made by “glueing” Runts candies into Bugles snacks, using Marshmallow creme as your glue. The trick is using…
We’ve been a little slow getting our Gratitude Tree going this year. But it is never too late to remember to be grateful, right? So this is what we have this year. It is a little different than last year, as many of you will recall… I loved how our tree turned out last year,…
I did this last year, posted about Christmas, right after posting about Halloween. I haven’t forgotten about Thanksgiving, I promise! But we’ll blame this slight on Chris at Just a Girl. She is having her 2nd annual “I Can Make That Party” today. I participated last year, and got tons of great ideas for Christmas…
TOY STORY: Yes! You were all right about our Toy Story theme! Which either means that you read and pay attention to my blog, or else you are just really smart (both?). These photos were taken by Peter Thatcher at our church Halloween party. I’m so glad he does this! I can’t ever get the…
I realize I owe you all a Halloween round-up with costume pics and all, but there are a couple of great blog parties going on right now, that I didn’t want to miss, so I am going to reveal the big loveseat reupholstery job my mom (I helped a bit) did when she was in…
My husband is a good sport… I try to stay out of the kitchen as much as possible these days (yes, I’m still pretty pukey, but hopefully will feel better, soon!). So at my request, he made these cute “mummy dogs” for dinner last night. I have seen this kind of thing featured around the…
Busy day! Story time and a costume parade for my baby at the library this morning. My Halloween episode of Mom Time TV airs in just a few minutes (you can catch the uncut version at momtimetv.com, later, if you miss it). And tonight I am teaching a class on Thanksgiving Tips and Tricks for…