During dinner I overhear a young girl asking the server if she could have some tape to write on, just like what was all around us in every direction. The server confidently replied, “Sure just don’t write bad words and don’t put it on the windows.” Seems reasonable enough, right? I noticed what the girl […]

You never know what a simple act you do could produce for someone! The person who gave me this mug has no idea how many times I talked myself out of writing my story and this mug wouldn’t let me not.     To the friend who gave me this, it was probably a simple […]

Am I the only one that may have a little destination addiction? Did you know that’s a thing? It is and Wow! It’s such a trap. You should look it up.  I talk about this in Happy ANYWAY in the sixth chapter under If/Then Happiness a bit.  Beware of Destination Addiction – a preoccupation with […]

My husband walked on stage to this song this weekend. And I thought what a great blog! That needs to become our theme song. It sort of reminds me of this verse…   “…If God is for us, who can be against us.” Romans 8:31b   So in other words it doesn’t matter who is […]

“Choose happy” makes some people mad. It actually made me mad this weekend. I wished I hadn’t written that book much of yesterday and today facing something that made me cry til I had no more tears. You know those cries where your eyes hurt for days? Let’s just say I wasn’t feeling like the […]

Have you ever heard of happy brain/happy life? Emerging research shows that being happy stimulates growth of nerve productions, improves cognition and mental productivity, improves critical thinking, affects your perception, and makes you more alert, which ultimately leads to happy thoughts! …therefore a happy mindset:) So which comes first? The chicken or the egg?   Is […]

You’ve probably heard the song “Great Are You Lord” and are familiar with the lyrics. Some of those lyrics include….  “Great are you, Lord! You give life to every heart that is broken It’s ur breath in our lungs so we pour out our praise to you only…   All the earth will shout your […]

Hey, a big shout out to you girls in Dothan! What a great weekend we had together 🎉🙌😍   Psychologists tell us that we either have a fixed mindset or a growth mindset. A fixed mindset says “I came from a poor family so I’m destined to be poor.” Or “My family was dysfunctional so […]

Today concludes our family’s Christmas ski trip and it was seriously pure joy. We turned in our skis each day to demo different skis trying to find our faves incase we decide to buy them. As many of you readers know I am surrounded by lots of testerone in my family. Even our dogs are […]

Family. Traveling. Shopping. Eating. Gifts. Candlelight Communion. Cooking. Time off. Laughter. Did I mention eating? 👆😂   Christmas vacation looks differently for us all but most of us can relate to the Christmas Vacation movie. I don’t know about you but I keep finding myself hoping with all that is within me that these next […]