Day 8: My 5 Current Goals (Day 8 of 30 Day Blogging Challenge) In addition to my goals of being a good mother, a good spouse, a decent human being, and to continue bettering myself as a person, these are my five current goals for direction in my life. In no particular order: I want to […]

Day 7: My Favorite 5 Songs (Day 7 of 30 Day Blogging Challenge) I can’t narrow my favorite music down to five songs, so I’ll give you five categories of my top five favorites in each.   My favorite breakup songs: Gives You Hell, All American Rejects White Horse, Taylor Swift  King of Wishful Thinking, Go […]

Day 6: What Am I Most Afraid Of (Day 6 of 30 Day Blogging Challenge) The first fear that comes to mind probably comes to mind for anyone who has started a family: I’m afraid of some freak accident or tragedy striking my family, and I outlive my husband and children. I don’t know what I […]

Day 5: My Proudest Moment (Day 5 of 30 Day Blogging Challenge) My proudest moment was when my oldest daughter graduated from the NJ CARES Program. We had been through Hell as a family after she shared she was sexually abused. DYFS (NJ’s CPS) substantiated the abuse, and the prosecutor began an investigation. My daughter had a […]

Day 4: My Dream Job (Day 4 of 30 Day Blogging Challenge) I have three dream jobs. One I’ve been lucky enough to experience. The other two I want to manifest within the next decade. The dream job I’ve been blessed to experience is being a stay at home mom when my kids were pre-school aged. […]

In my blog post 20 Facts About Me, I replied to a reader’s comment saying Quakerism was a thinker’s spirituality. A couple personal friends responded to me privately they feel Christianity was also a thinker’s religion, and that my comment was insulting. I wanted to write a blog to address that. First, about being offensive. […]

In Meeting For Worship this morning, our Meeting’s Clerk issued us a challenge. Since I like to blog, I’ll be blogging my challenge results instead of simply writing them down. The challenge is two-fold. First, at the end of each day, assess the day and find things to be grateful for specific to that day. Being grateful […]

Day 3: My Favorite Quote (Day 2 of 30 Day Blogging Challenge) I have so many favorites, and it’s hard to narrow them down. Here’s my top five. 🙂   They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty sceptre, O’er lesser powers that be, But a mightier power and […]

Day 2: 20 Facts About Me (Day 2 of 30 Day Blogging Challenge) I’ve had 4 weddings, but only 2 husbands. I married husband #1 at the age of 20, but that ended in a nullity, which is when the state legally dissolves a marriage instead of simply ending it; it’s as if the marriage legally never existed. That’s not […]