Inspiration

A close friend of mine recently forwarded an email from a co-worker. As a mother, it saddened my heart  to read it. As a Latina, it called me to action. It forced me to look at myself, at my children, and reevaluate my life. While I fight with my children over a messy room, Denise [...]

I love quotes. They are wonderfully catchy reminders that help me retain a certain outlook throughout the week. This weeks quote is noted below. May it speak to you as well!

I love you. This is not the quick I love you said at the end of a phone call or shouted as you run off to school. These three words are the ones that stay in your heart forever, long after I am gone. Not because of anything you've done or do, although we both [...]

I love quotes. They are wonderfully catchy reminders that help me retain a certain outlook throughout the week. This weeks quote is noted below. May it speak to you as well! "The patience of a mother might be likened to a tube of toothpaste- it's never quite all gone." ~From the book  Dear Mom

I love quotes. They are wonderfully catchy reminders that help me retain a certain outlook throughout the week. This weeks quote is noted below. May it speak to you as well! "If you would be loved, be lovable.”  ~Ovid 

I love quotes. They are wonderfully catchy reminders that help me retain a certain outlook throughout the week. This weeks quote is noted below. May it speak to you as well! Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than [...]

As noted in a previous post, I was able to admire the new Hallmark Kids Collection at Blissdom at the Hallmark booth. Hallmark writer Sarah Mueller who helped develop their new line was on hand to show me several of the cards. In the video below, we discussed the importance of encouraging children and how [...]

I read a lot of blogs. Many times as I read I think, "I know that feeling, its happened to me!"  Its at those time when I wish I was able to speak directly to the writer and say, "It'll be OK. I know." When I was hungry, someone came along and brought me food, bags and bags [...]

Powerful: having great power, authority, or influence ********************  Powerful, as defined by dictionary.com, means having great power, authority or influence. The wielder of such power can sway others towards something better, something greater, something higher.  By building others, it creates power in others.  Yet this doesn't take away from the wielder's power, in fact, it increases it, enabling the [...]