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...
by Francie | Mar 29, 2012 | Family, Movies and Books
Mmm! Hunger Games, book or movie, are consuming the community, country and slowly the globe. Or maybe we are consuming it? I rarely sat in a seat anywhere this past weekend without the Hunger Games coming up in the conversation, and I wasn’t even in the theatre! (I...
by Francie | Mar 22, 2012 | Family, mom, Travel
MOM imploded, again. The Master Of Multitasking took on one task too many and it wasn’t a “just say no” to something that did it. A husband traveling nonstop for two months, missing his kids’ music performances, baseball games, Boy Scout meetings and worst of all,...
by Francie | Mar 12, 2012 | Fashion
Do you really want to get people seeing you differently? Are you thinking a new haircut or maybe a color change? Brunette? REALLY RED? I’d say blonde but I think many of us have either been there or are there. You can get a refresh on your look very affordably and...
by Francie | Mar 7, 2012 | Family
A mom’s nose, knows. Most of the time this is true. If we can’t discern the “what” we can certainly ascertain one exists. We know someone got into the chocolate stash just minutes after the infraction. We smell something on the verge of burning. We know a biology...
by Francie | Feb 28, 2012 | Fashion
The guys are getting even with the gals. After years of describing to our husbands what another mom looks like, “well, she’s blonde,” they’ve had enough. “Don’t tell me she’s blonde! They are all blonde!” It’s true; most of my friends are blonde. And my friends...
