When It’s Monday, It’s Mama When your Mama is still living at 82 years old, you are blessed. So, I try to call my Mama early every morning while my Daddy is out on his daily walk. This is “our sacred time” where Mama and I are able to laugh, cry, and…
“If It’s Monday, It’s Mama” Reprised at the request of Madison The Traditions of “Me and My Three”, Part One Madison has asked me to reprise our “If It’s Monday, It’s Mama” blogpost, and some things you just do because the person asking you to is that important. “If It’s Monday, It’s Mama” became my…
Our Mama on Mother’s Day…..She is a Part of All of Us Mama….she lives in each of us For the past 57 years, I have been blessed to have Shirle Sue Perry Millstead for my Mother. I say blessed because I cannot remember a single time during those 57 years that I did not know…
Perspective is Everything I love Exodus 14:14 – “The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.” Next to I Corinthians 13, Exodus 14:14 has become a strong guiding verse in my life. It is in my nature to talk, to write (aha!), and to defend. That is…
We are here at Snug Hollow in Irvine, Kentucky and everything they say about it is true…It really is an attack on the senses but in all of the best of ways… From the first time I ventured up the steps to the loft bedroom and my toes knew the joy that comes from the…
Wholehearted One Unum Cor Perfectum I had not studied Latin since my Sophomore year in college at Eastern Kentucky University. I took Latin 101 because I had the image of its being a very romantic language, the concept of which I loved. …
Today marks my thirtieth year of being a mother, mama, mom…mommy. When I was trying to become pregnant with my first child, everything seemed so possible. Scott (my children’s dad) and I were so “organized” that we only planned for a Spring baby, so when the first attempt was made and not successful (during the…