About Me

My husband tells me I often live by jumping first and then yelling for someone to throw me down a parachute. Guess what? I’ve done it again. And, this time, I’ve gone and started a “real” blog.

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Our Mission

Read about me on down the page below. If you can relate, then as women we need to connect– and share the ministry of Jesus Christ

Our Values

I love learning about God. Anything related to God, His word and history fascinates me. And, I admit, I am a shameless coffee fanatic.

My husband tells me I often live by jumping first and then yelling for someone to throw me down a parachute. Guess what? I’ve done it again. And, this time, I’ve gone and started a “real” blog. I reference it this way because I have been blogging on a Facebook page for a few years.   

Now, I’m sitting here trying to answer the question about who I am. How on earth did I get to be fifty years old and have no idea who I am? 


I’m a daughter. Like others, my family had issues.

I’m a sister to an incredibly lucky lady. Please don’t ask her opinion of this!

I am a wife to an even more lucky man. And, absolutely don’t ask his opinion of this description!

I am a mom of three incredible people. I have enjoyed raising two of these people into adults here on earth while another child waits for me in Heaven. 

The hubby and I are living in the “empty nest” and welcome any advice we can with navigating these waters. 

We recently had our first wedding and now have a fabulous son-in-law. No matter how often I tell myself that I am now a mother-in-law, it just doesn’t seem plausible. 

I am the grandmother to two of the hairiest huskies you can ever imagine. As I write this, I have just finished cleaning and shoveling dog hair out of my house after they have been to visit. Every time I think there can’t possibly be any more dog hair, lo and behold, another furry tumbleweed floats by.

I have one fur baby who is literally my world! He is a seven-year-old, eight-pound miniature dachshund, dapple in color, and he absolutely lives for chicken biscuits from McDonald’s. 

I have been a middle school teacher sharing knowledge in language arts and science for eighteen years. One time I was asked to teach math, and once the administration realized my ignorance of numbers, they never asked me again!

I have taught Sunday School at the same church for almost thirty years in the nursery, young children, and youth rooms. 

My father is God, and I have been His for as long as I can remember. I was saved during a summer Vacation Bible School. So shout out to VBS directors! Your work does pay off.

God is my best friend. My anchor in a storm. The only person I can truly depend on.

I:

  • Am a worrier. 
  • Am a Jesus lover. 
  • Am a Barnabus. I’ll encourage a tree if it lets me!
  • Am a shopping addict. 
  • Can lose my glasses, search for hours and find them on top of my head. 
  • Don’t have all the answers, but I will listen, cry, and pray with you. 
  • Lost a family member to suicide. I now live in fear and PTSD that another member will do the same. 
  • Am a writer. 
  • Am a people and animal lover. 
  • Am a potato chip hog. 
  • Love hot weather and sitting on the beach. 
  • I loathe winter from beginning to end.
  • Am a bookstore enthusiast.
  • Am a coffee fanatic. 
  • I am an exercise dreamer. I fully believe that just by “thinking” about exercise, one should shed some calories! 
  • Have been chosen by God to be the wife and mother of people battling Polycystic Kidney Disease. 
  • Battle depression and ADHD. Lights and bright colors are a must for me! 
  • Don’t want anyone to feel alone.
  • Love learning about God. Anything related to God, His word, and history fascinates me.  

IF YOU CAN RELATE… THEN WE NEED TO CONNECT!