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 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,...
