I was surprised by how many pictures there were of my sisters and I enjoying ourselves boating and water skiing and sunning ourselves on the beach or on the dock wearing cute (but modest) bikinis.  It brought a harsh reminder to me that it is time to start looking to buy a new bathing suit [...]

I was looking through family photos this past weekend, and feeling very blessed for having two wonderful sisters - this is a shout-out!  I love you my wonderful loving, generous, empathetic sisters!  I don’t know what I would do without you, you are the best!

We’ve been talking about signing up for karate classes again.  It has been a few years since we took them and to be perfectly honest, we’ve probably forgotten an awful lot of it!  Every time we turn on the television we hear more horror stories about people being assaulted, robbed, raped, and killed.  Learning some [...]

My kids and I used to take karate classes a few years ago.  We stopped taking them because the dojo was closed for renovations for a while, and we just got “out of the habit” and lazy.  We had filled that time slot with a different activity - relaxing - and to be honest, we [...]