If you’re familiar with my blog, then you know that my one and only daughter, Katie, is spending 2 months is Swaziland, South Africa this summer.  I posted about it HERE, when I was still nervous, and she was still fund raising.  Then I posted HERE when the fund raising was over… She has just passed the half way mark, so I thought it might be fitting to post...

Today was starting out as any other day… I tried to sleep passed 8AM and laid in bed silently going from cursing the sunrise to praying and going over my to-do’s for the day… all at the same time. Really.  This is the reality of the OCD-ADD mind. As I gave in to the light, and headed in to wake the man-child, my Africa bound daughter screamed, “MOM!!” ...

These are a few of the things that caused me to say, “really?” last week… Watched 4 hours of a Storage Wars marathon…And liked it. Traveled for 2 hours (each way) for my son to play baseball. Twice in one week. Have the worst sunburn on my knees.  Just my knees. Pollen.  Just pollen. (GA broke the count record at 9,369) Spent an hour on the...

My college student, and only daughter, will not be coming home this summer.   She has applied, and has been accepted, into a program through Adventures in Missions.  She will leave the first of June, for a 2-month mission trip in Swaziland, Africa.  Really… My kids are all service oriented, and have experienced missions on local and national levels, and one...