I was sharing my weight loss journey with a woman from my hometown the other day. It reminded me just how long it took me to get things going. To get it right. As many of you know I shared my weight loss story and challenge with the viewers of the jennifer show. That was in [...]
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So you’re interested in using WordPress as your business site – smart move! But before you dive right in to planning and design you’re decided to do a little research. WordPress is most commonly known as a blogging platform but it’s grown in popularity as a website platform for both large and small businesses. Why Use WordPress [...]
January 8, 2010
Today I was able to catch up with a good fitness buddy. She herself has lost over 100 lbs and looks FABULOUS!! I was taking some time to vent my weight loss frustration and mistakes to her. Tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes in it. – Leah Segedie That one comment really got me thinking. Yesterday [...]
Continue Reading...January 6, 2010
That’s what my brain is telling my body about this whole get healthy mission I’ve been on for over a year now! I’ve shared my story with jennifer viewers. I’ve applied twice to be a Mamavation mom – and lost twice. Perhaps it’s a way of God telling me I wasn’t ready or I was ready [...]
Continue Reading...December 16, 2009
Last night, I dreamed that God resurrected my beautiful adopted aunt, Mary Jo Hoffman. But morning renewed my mourning for her: Christmas trees, snow globes, and music greeted my grieving heart. Relate? In previous years, my maternal grandpa (a.k.a. “Papa Ray”) died near Thanksgiving and my adopted “Grandpa Morley” died near Christmas. Now, people cannot compare [...]
Continue Reading...December 15, 2009
Last year I read Me, Myself, & Bob: A True Story About Dreams, God, and Talking Vegetables by Phil Vischer, creator of the Veggie Tales video series. I was interested because my children grew up on Veggie Tales. But I was also interested because somewhere along the way I noticed Phil Vischer was no longer [...]
Continue Reading...December 14, 2009
My mother had remarkable zeal for Christmas. Weeks in advance, she would come home from teaching school and bake late into the night. I helped clean the house and decorate the tree while my older brother Roger wired the house with Christmas lights, transforming our humble red house into a place of magical beauty. Following [...]
Continue Reading...December 14, 2009
I used to be the queen of over-commitment, and December brought out the worst in this malady. It was as if I were poised at an imaginary starting line, and when I flipped the calendar page, I was off and running–the December dash! You could hardly see any white space on my daily planner it was [...]
Continue Reading...December 14, 2009
During a quiet moment after Thanksgiving, I started reading my parents’ stack of love letters that I recently found in a storage box. As a Christmas gift to you, I would like to share my father’s words to my mother written to her during Christmas 1949. This incredible “hug from heaven” has been a tangible [...]
Continue Reading...December 13, 2009
One Christmas when my mother was a girl, she received a string of pearls from her father. Since her parents were divorced-an unusual situation in the 1950s-she treasured the pearls as a sign of her father’s love. When he passed away her senior year in high school, the pearls took on even greater significance. When I [...]
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