• Monday Gratitude

    Monday Gratitude

    Counting today, there are only 11 days until Thanksgiving. Merry Christmas. We have had temps in the teens and 20’s with a full blanket of snow on the ground for over a week. The winter weather makes it easy to forget about Thanksgiving and move right into Christmas. Even if…

  • Monarch

    Monarch

    This beauty caught my attention walking into the bookstore at my daughter’s university in Virginia a couple weeks ago. Here in NY, a layer of frost had already covered our lawn. In Virginia, these flowers were still in bloom despite the orange leaves falling from the trees. The Farmer’s Almanac…

  • Baking Brings Calm. Order. Completion.

    Baking Brings Calm. Order. Completion.

    I made cookies over the weekend. Although there were plenty of tasks I “should have” done instead, I needed to do something that made me feel normal, creative… and – in the end – something was accomplished that was visible and complete. I went so far as to arrange the…

  • The Power of God’s Country

    The Power of God’s Country

    God’s Country: “A place conceived of as especially favored by God; a place away from a city.” Merriam-Webster Last weekend, my husband and I flew to Virginia to see our youngest at school. She was thrilled to have us there and kept us really busy with her friends and touring…

  • Monday Praise

    Monday Praise

    Doth not all nature around me praise God? Do not the mountains praise Him when the woods upon their summits wave in adoration? Charles Spurgeon  “Let all that I am praise the Lord” Psalm 103:1 Photo: Mine – Virginia mountains, October 2019

  • Convenience Reigns King in our Modern Times

    Convenience Reigns King in our Modern Times

    A couple years ago I was telling my kids how sad I was that Wegmans closed the W-Kids play center at the front of our local Wegmans.My kids laughed and said, “You never let us go in there! We were always with you!” True. I loved shopping with my babies…

  • Silent Sunday-October Beauty

    Silent Sunday-October Beauty

  • Becoming Mrs. Lewis

    Becoming Mrs. Lewis

    One of the statements I kept on my Mama Duck About Me page for a long time was that I’m a non-fiction reader. Every now and then, I pick up a fiction novel but in the past, it was usually to preview a story before my kids read it. After…

  • Autumn Sunset

    Autumn Sunset

    Photos: mine – family5power.com

  • We Want It Now God

    We Want It Now God

    We want it now God. Healing for our loved ones. Not in a little while longer. It’s already been too long. They need energy for work. To earn a living. To pay the medical bills and restock the drained savings account. Energy to play with their children. They want to…