Good Morning – It’s Friday.  Got your rose-colored glasses on today?  Or are you dragging your feet this morning.  Grab some coffee or tea and toast and settle in for a quick chat!  For me – this week (thankfully) went by quickly.  Some days have dragged right along these past couple of weeks, but this week has been really one of the best weeks for awhile. My OB visit went well.  Baby is G-R-O-W-I-N-G.  Seriously –...

This week has been MUCH better than the previous week. =)  I am thankful it is Friday – although we’ve had some school delays with ice and freezing rain – things settled down a bit this week.  Probably had a LOT to do with the fact that I had much to be thankful for!  Pull up a couch cushion and grab a big mug full of coffee so we can chat! I spent some time really looking at my schedule and penciling out my next few...

Oh has it been a week. We’ve gotten significant amounts of snow -  enough to delay 1 day of school – but enough to keep us from just getting out and going anywhere.  It’s very pretty – but VERY cold.  Hot Tea or Coffee is JUST right!!!  Feel free to help yourself!!! {Hello Company Girls!} Honestly – I’ve had some good moments this week – but we are dealing with some serious stress – that is...

It’s been a long time since I participated in the Company Girls chats on Friday morning – and the prospect actually had me excited all week.  While we can’t all meet in a local coffee shop, it’s really fun to find “friends” through this thing called the internet!  Whether we live in a U.S. Midwestern state – or on the other side of the world – being a wife & mom who loves her family brings...

(Revised version) In so many ways, I have come to know the Holy Spirit in a new way this year.  After reading The Shack and attending most of the Summit Conference at church – my ears are tuning in (some days better, other days worse) to the voice of the Spirit and it is really refreshing. I hear Him calling me at 5:30 – even when the alarm isn’t set – to get up and spend time in the Word. I hear Him speaking to me when...

Well, I’ll tell ya – I appreciate coffee A LOT this morning.  I was up 1x an hour almost every hour last night.  Just one of those nights.  It stormed a little – we had a “visitor” from the peanut gallery – and a variety of other things kept waking me up.  ACK!  So, with blurry eyes and a steaming cup, I’m typing away this morning… I was WIDE AWAKE at 3:30 am yesterday morning, so it made for...

Hello Company Girls! It’s been a pretty great week – for the most part – and I can’t believe Friday is here. Our church has been hosting a revival with Life Action Ministries.  GOOD hard stuff.  Conviction galore – and God’s cleansing power and redemption is so amazing…. Do any of you have a great pasta salad recipe?  I love pasta salad and shared my favorite recipe earlier this week.  Do you have...

Good Morning – it is a GORGEOUS morning here. Sunny, cool (but not cold) and looking to be a really beautiful day.  Got my coffee ready this morning – but you’ll have to settle for wheat toast with peanut butter this morning (although for people like me, that’s not something to “settle” for – I love it!)  My husband, Roy, prefers his toast with peanut butter & Bob White syrup (which is much like...

Oh – Its so cool that Rachel Anne, from Home Sanctuary, made a Community for the Company Girls! I enjoy the visits from and to all the “coffee girls” on Fridays, and then I saw that Rachel Anne made a new place for us to visit together more often. I started putting together a Queen Mommys Cafe community over at BlogFrog, too, last week after they made their big announcement!  This was a pretty smart move on BlogFrog’s...

Good morning Company Girls, Friends & Readers! Although you may have expected a picture of me based on the title of this post (HA!), in reality, I am just keeping things short and sweet today.  Grab your coffee and take a breather for just a few minutes. It has been a difficult week in Mommyland.  Potty training is only one aspect of it – chocolate is a GREAT motivator.  Just having one of those –...