by Francie | May 3, 2012 | Family, God
How do I define thee? This is a moment when time stops. My kids ask me for the meaning of a difficult word and my mind locks up. I think and I think and I am coming up empty, the answer right on the tip of my tongue. “Gee. Hmmm. Well…that’s a toughie.” I know it...
by Francie | Apr 25, 2012 | Family, Movies and Books
Ahh. It’s Friday night. Let’s stay in and watch a movie. We’ll get take out, settle into some comfy chairs in the family room and enjoy family time together, for which the room is named. I love a room that lives up to its name. And we love this night together, my...
by Francie | Apr 17, 2012 | Family, Travel
Visions of warm, beachy vacations danced in our heads. Tropical trips in faraway places created a nice, spring break tradition in the last two years. A taste of the good life became an expectation, a “necessity”. Next in line? The endless possibilities ended...
by Francie | Apr 12, 2012 | chocolate, Fashion, Fitness
Beauty is…your perfect (fill in the blank.) And by perfect, I mean thinner and thinner and thinner anything and everything. And now, in the thick of the “new thirties” decade, I add smoother, smoother, and smoother plus tighter, tighter and tighter. All skin and...
by Francie | Apr 6, 2012 | Family, Holiday
Since I can remember, every Easter included a treasure hunt, a real one with oodles of clues and plenty of booty. My Dad hand-wrote, rhyming clues on slips of yellow legal pad paper and hid them through out the house in colorful plastic eggs. So crafty was he, you...
