12 Things I learned in 2012 – 1 a day for 12 days…. #8 I wouldn’t trade a truly laugh out loud moment for $100. Laughter is a medicine to the body – even the Bible says so. So David and I do what we call “milk a laugh”. If something is worth laughing at […]

I was absolutely fine one moment laying in bed and watching tv with my husband and the next second I felt an intense pain pierce my heart. Shockingly, it wasn’t that an actual bullet came flying into my room. But my loving husband fired some careless words at me in a moment that he wasn’t […]

Sharing the 7th thing I learned of 12 in 2012: #7 Not all friends are TRUE friends. True friends… -forgive the stupid things we say without ever bringing them up, -don’t have to talk every day, every week, or even every month, -have permission to speak into our life and never apologize for what they […]

As I share one thing a day of ’12 Things I Learned in 2012′ in 30 seconds or less, we move to: #6 We all want to be needed and need to be wanted. Hearing that we were missed, desired, or needed does SO MUCH for our self-esteem. It doesn’t always occur to us to […]

Everyday I’m sharing 1 of 12 things I learned in 2012. Today #5 – Anger never made anyone feel better Including the person that got angry! Sometimes ‘letting the feelings out’ is something we can justify to ourselves, but it never feels justified to the person on the other end. And later many times the […]