From the monthly archives:
Nif, Jobi, and I have enjoyed sharing our lives with you this year. We love even more when you share your comments, emails, tweets, and FB comments. Our goal is to encourage and inspire everybody, but especially mothers as they work at their hardest job ever ~ being a parent! Hope you enjoy our 2009 [...]
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Yesterday I posted about creating family traditions. Every Christmas for the past 10 years I have made this breakfast casserole, so I thought I’d share with you. Hope you enjoy it as much as we do. Laurel Hill Plantation Bed and Breakfast McClellanville, South Carolina Grits Breakfast Casserole Ingredients 2 pounds bulk sausage (if you [...]
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Yesterday I told you about the Gratitude Journal that we started as a way to close out the year and our plans to list each day 5 things we’re thankful for. For me, the “attitude of gratitude” is as important as the family ritual of writing in the journal together. Family traditions create feelings [...]
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“Gratitude is the heart’s memory.” -French Proverb As a mom, one thing I do that I think is important is that I remind my daughters to always say “Thank you.” I remind them of this as a matter of politeness, but as this year is coming to a close I really wanted to instill [...]
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Ever heard that a man’s brain has separate boxes for everything, and in a woman’s brain everything is connected. Christmas night I had the chance to spend some time with my Daddy. We watched one of his favorite shows, Criminal Minds. I don’t really like to watch a lot of TV, but I do like [...]
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What would you do if your child was very disrespectful to another adult? to their teacher? Mothers are all doing the best they can. Listen as Nif and Lisa discuss different consequences mothers use. Jennifer (Nif) has been counseling parents and students for 15 years. You will enjoy her insight. Click here to download to [...]
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We have a peculiar special tradition in our family, and I think it must be a Southern thing. Since I can remember, every year on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, we try to be the first one to say “Christmas Eve Gift!” or “Christmas Gift!” to each other. My dad always said that if you ”got” the other person, he [...]
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The picture was taken with my cell phone, so the quality is not that great. I just had to capture my daughter as she worked on taking apart broken watches and whatnot. Not sure where she got the facemask… she must have found it when she was getting the tools together for her project. This is [...]
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When is the last time you had to be the patient? Last Thursday I had surgery, and Doodie and Daddy were there to care for me, get instructions from nurses, make banana pudding, and stay in touch with my friends. My girlfriends have been incredible. Their cards, texts, e-mails, facebook messages, phone calls, visits, gifts, [...]
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