Welcome to all my Proverbs 31 Devotional friends today! I’m delighted you stopped by! Please take a minute to leave a comment and introduce yourself! Happy Tuesday to all my favorite blog world friends who hang out with me here on a regular basis! Please hop...
One of the hardest parts of dealing with cancer treatment is the fear of the unknown. I’m happy to leverage my experience to take away that fear as much as possible. Here are 5 things I didn’t about radiation treatments until I started them, some photos,...
With my cancer journey, we’ve obviously had quite a few medical bills landing in our mailbox. Three times in the past three months, I have discovered mistakes on our EOB–Explanation of Benefits that are sent to us on each claim. In each case I had...
This past weekend over 4000 moms descended upon Bloomington-Normal, Illinois to attend the Hearts at Home National conference. It was an incredible weekend of laughter and learning. Michael Gowin, one of our official conference photographers already has his photos...
Today is our Third Thursday Blog Hop…but before we jump into our blog hop topic, I want to share two updates with you: First, we are up to 7! Seven kids have been sponsored in the past week as a part of my 50th birthday wish I shared last week. Only 43 kids...
If you’ve been hanging out here for very long, you’ve heard me quote something Jennifer Rothschild shared at a Hearts at Home conference several years ago. While referring to her blindness, she said, “It is not well with my circumstances, but it is...
Well I’m three weeks out from my lumpectomy and sentinel node removal. The good news is that there was no cancer in my lymph nodes! This is the value of catching this early while the cancer is still localized. If you’re 40 or over, schedule your mammogram...
It was five weeks ago today that I got my breast cancer diagnosis. We’ve done genetic testing, met with a half dozen or more doctors, read, prayed, and talked. Today treatment starts. You see, today is surgery day. A lumpectomy is the surgery I’ve chosen...
Is anyone else still pinching themselves that it is December already? Oh my! The late Thanksgiving really has thrown me off! Please tell me I’m not the only one! If you’re here from Lysa Terkeurst’s blog today….welcome! So glad you stopped...
Thank you so much for your outpouring of love and encouragement concerning my recent cancer diagnosis. I couldn’t possibly respond to all of your emails and comments, but I read them…every single one of them, and I am humbled by your words and prayers....
Well in light of my post yesterday, I think that embracing “what is” instead of looking for “what isn’t” will most definitely define the holidays for me. Because I’ll likely be recovering from surgery the week before Christmas,...
To launch Hearts at Home’s newest book 10 Questions Kids Have About Sex, Pam Farrel is guest blogging all this week on talking to your kids about sex and relationships! You can find Pam online at love-wise.com. ************************************************* It was...
In today’s technologically advanced society, old fashioned things like a handwritten note or a carefully selected card are rarely experienced. I recently saw a statistic that said the typical American household will go two months before a personal letter shows...
Today’s post is from Alexandra Kuykendall of MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers). As a mother of three girls and baby number four on the way, Alexandra enjoys her occasional breaks from mothering to spend time at the MOPS International office. There she helps create...
During the month of October we’ve been seeing pink everywhere. Pink ribbons, pink shoes on the feet of macho football players, pink lights in the windows of tall skyscrapers in the city. It’s a concentrated effort to bring visibility to one of the most...
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