CELEBRATE This Week: XXXVIII
I’m glad you are here to celebrate! Share a link to your blog post below and/or use #celebratelu to share celebrations on Twitter. *** I can’t believe I totally missed… Read more CELEBRATE This Week: XXXVIII →
Summer Plans FOR ME
My friend, Franki, shared this link with me: Mom’s Summer Bucket Lists. Franki and I like to joke that we are successful when we manage to put on lotion or… Read more Summer Plans FOR ME →
Celebrate This Week: XXXI
I’m glad you are here to celebrate! Share a link to your blog post below and/or use #celebratelu to share celebrations on Twitter. ***** A don’t-miss… If you are attending the All Write Summer Institute in June and would like to meet up for dinner on Wednesday, June 18, consider joining us for dinner. Sign up HERE! ***** A promise… I’m saying it here so that I will be accountable: I will be blogging again before next Saturday. If I don’t, I certainly hope someone makes it sting a little.… Read more Celebrate This Week: XXXI →
A Small Offering {1 of 40 Stories}
Click here for the back story. By the time I was 12, I thought I knew exactly how my life would turn out. The highlights included: A job as an artist or a writer with a creativity that quickly produced masterpieces with ease. A husband who liked sports, dressed in suits, and walked in the door by 6:00 pm with a loosened tie and a briefcase. (A home cooked meal was waiting on the table.) Two children, a little girl with my curls and a boy with his eyes. An… Read more A Small Offering {1 of 40 Stories} →
Controlling the Crazies
Last week we made a change at our dinner table. Andy and I swapped seats. Now there’s a girl end of the table and a boy end of the table.… Read more Controlling the Crazies →
My Anchor
This might be a good addition to my jewelery box . Last week Andy was gone at a conference. We took him to Indianapolis on Monday night and he was… Read more My Anchor →
What SHINE taught me {OLW 2013}
Twelve months ago I was apprehensive to claim this word as mine for 2013. Now, from this perspective, I can’t imagine a better word to teach me what I needed… Read more What SHINE taught me {OLW 2013} →
Caught Up
Today I kept running the vacuum and running the washer and running dish water. I was determined to get caught up. It didn’t happen. But I did hand write a note.And I did call my grandma and my parents and my brother-in-law.And I did sit down and visit with my brother and sister-in–law. The Legos never stayed contained and books are still balanced on the arms of chairs and foot stools and under the Christmas tree. The laundry is still in baskets and the stove still needs scrubbed. But I… Read more Caught Up →
Choose Happy
In my house growing up the mother of all four letter words was the word can’t. Not only was it not allowed, but it would poke and prod until my normally passive parents would be in an uproar. Can’t was a dirty word. It wasn’t allowed out of my mouth. I think not good enough is the evil twin of can’t. It’s dressed a little differently, but it has the same effect. It keeps us from reaching our full potential. I’m learning how to squelch not good enough. Pray. I… Read more Choose Happy →
Ruth Ayres Writes 