Month: July 2016

Simple Giving

Have you ever felt the urge to do more and give more, but didn’t know how to do this? You’ll love this book, Simple Giving. I am so very, very excited to share this book with you: Simple Giving by Jennifer Iacovelli. Jennifer is not only a very close personal friend, but she is the creator of …

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Call Uncle Uber

Call Uncle Uber There’s no question that parents raise their youngest kid differently from their oldest. Anyone who denies this truth is either lying to you or to themselves. And, without a doubt, the further apart your children are spaced, and the more kids you have – the greater the disparity. With a 14 year chasm …

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Taking a Trip

Our family took a weekend trip away on Easter weekend for our son’s hockey tournament.  We took our four children plus our daughter’s best friend. The kids had a lot of fun but I am exhausted.  Taking a trip is not as fun when you are an adult.  I think it has a lot to do …

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Tips for taking your Kids to the Drive-in Movie Theater (and a review of the Big Mo)

South Carolina drive-in movie theater – the Big Mo It’s one of SC’s three (or four, still not clear on this) Drive-in movie theaters. It’s called the Big Mo because of it’s location in Monetta, SC. A quiet, sleepy little town in the middle of Mo-where. Ha! I kill myself. It took us almost an hour …

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Summer Days

Summer Days, Then and Now   Then… 4,738 times. That’s how many times I bounced a golf ball on the concrete patio on the back of my parent’s house in the summer of 1973. I bounced that white sphere of hard plastic on the concrete, watching it bounce on the side of the house and …

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Moving Checklist

A couple of years have passed since my last major move, and hopefully, it will be the last for just a little while. Since I was very pregnant, I had to get organized so I get things done in time. Over the years, I’ve easily moved more than a dozen times. However, this last time, I had to develop somewhat of …

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