A Thanksgiving Feast
Teagan’s preschool hosted a Thanksgiving Feast on Tuesday. The kids did the cooking- vegetable stew, cornbread, pumpkin pie, lemonade. Parents came and enjoyed lunch with their kids. Some grandparents were there. The kids had made placemats, centerpieces, and turkey hats. We were greeted with a little poem the kids all recited about turkeys- I hardly caught the words because I was just so excited that Teagan was actually saying the words and smiling.We got our food and sat down at the tiny little table in the tiny little chairs. We ate our stew- potatoes, carrots, celery, tomato, corn. We ate our cornbread. We had a slice of pie. We talked to Teagan about what she had d

WWW: Forgiveness
This is a big topic and I hope I can do it justice.Forgiveness is such an important value and theme in my life. Over the course of the past few months, it has come up again and again. A sermon at church, fellow bloggers, even Oprah.Forgi

Verizon's Droid by Motorola
I returned my Droid yesterday. While I didn't fall head over heels in love with the phone like I did with my EnV Touch, this is definitely a very cool phone and there are things about the phone that I am certainly going to miss.I thought the EnV Touch might be an iPhone hopeful... not even close after using the Droid for a few weeks. The phone is sleek and fits nicely in my hand. Not heavy or bulky. And it just looks cool, you know? Plus, when you turn it on, instead of the little Verizon no

A Mom to Everyone
I've always had something of a maternal instinct. But there is something deeper now that I am a mom that I feel a need to step in and mother when the actual mother can't be there.Monday morning, after dropping Teagan off at school and heading to Christy's to pick her up, I witnessed a car accident. A guy on his way to work hit a teenager on her way to school. It could have been much worse. There was no blood, no evidence of broken bones. The driver of the pick up got out immediately. I pulled over and dialed 911 right away. I was directly behind the accident. While on the phone with 911, I went up to the small sedan that had been hit. The girl was on the phone. I told

The Move
My new office- ta da!! The details on that window... unfortunately, the guy in that office tends to keep the little blinds by the door mostly closed so I'm not getting much of his light. But I'm still closer to a window!