life in my empty nest

  The day after Melissa’s Bridal Shower, we headed two hours across the state from the Detroit area to Grand Rapids to celebrate Audrey’s Ch...

  It is a few days past Easter and April is already whizzing along for me with a lot on my calendar.  Melissa’s bridal shower is fast approa...

  We were blessed to be able to spend our Easter weekend with both friends and family and in both instances, found a feeling of normalcy and...

Sometimes life comes at you hard.  And there are two ways to react to a sudden loss.  You might question your faith and rail against the unf...

Doesn’t it seem like things changed in an instant?   A random virus none of us really worried about as it began to close things in Europ...

The texts and photos were flying fast and furious on Good Friday, between our friends in Michigan and our group here in Florida.  For c...

It all began several years ago when I lived in Michigan in a big house with too much stuff accumulated over the years.  Too much th...

    Pinterest   For the past few years, I have tried to take something on during lent rather than give something up. The thing that reall...

          It's going on ten years now that we have celebrated Good Friday together as a group and it is a day I look forward to all year...

          After taking a break for the holiday season, our Mass Mob group was back at it this past Sunday. If you are not familiar with my ...

        Our Easter weekend was filled with a lot of love and tradition. We started out the weekend with an old fashioned polish fish fry (p...

    I am proud to say that I have emptied fifteen bins of items that I will either be donating or selling at a garage sale in May. It has ...

    Pinterest   Today is Ash Wednesday and when I go to mass tonight, it will be a time of reflection, a chance for quiet and an hours peac...

      When I started my 40 Bags in 40 Days Lenten challenge this year, I knew that reaching the goal would be difficult. Because t...

      It's a Good Friday tradition and this year was no exception. We headed to Detroit, straight to the inner city, for our ...

      The day we decided to join our parish, I didn't realize how much that community of people would mean to us, twenty five ye...

    source   As I reflect on the start of the Lenten season, as well as the start of my 40 Bags in 40 Days challenge, I know once...