Miss Sparkle is on week two of tenth grade. This year she is at West Fargo High School (her home school) as opposed to Sheyenne High School (where the West Fargo School District housed all the ninth graders). Let me be the first to say, what a difference a year makes! In ninth grade there [...]
Tag: patience
Me and my little owl…
My daughter Sarah brought me home a gift from her trip to Cocoa Beach, Florida. The gift is an owl charm that is meant to hang in your vehicle. It has pretty colored beads and says "kindness matters" on it. She got it for me because she knows I like owls and believe that kindness [...]
Ding-ding…my patience has expired.
Some days my ability to exercise patience is better than others. I sincerely try to be kind and gracious when things go wrong or folks make a mistake. But I have learned over time that my patience can quickly fall into a downward spiral after either a series of incidents occur in the same day [...]
Patience: EXPIRED.
There comes a time each year when my patience completely expires. It arrives at different times, but historically I don't make it more than a couple months into the new year before I exclaim to everyone and anyone who will listen that I am OVER winter. You would think that after 15 years in the [...]
Wag more. Bark less.
I came across a saying today that is destined to become one of my new favorite sayings - Wag more. Bark less. It could not have come at a better time. I have spent the entirety of the weekend indoors with Mike, Cheyenne, and the furry clan trying to reclaim order in the house after [...]
Positive vibes indeed.
Whenever I travel, I try and regularly check the daily news in The Forum online (InForum). Glancing over the InForum site daily is the way that I stay grounded in the sensibilities of home. Today I read a heartwarming story of a girl's commitment to her blind horse. The horse is a 23-year-old show horse registered as [...]
What I learned from Mike’s injury…
I often say, "Be careful what you wish for!" I say this because things don't always play out in practice the way we think they will. When Mike first hurt his knee three months ago I was appropriately horrified. Horrified for him as the extent of the injury was unknown; horrified for me because Nurse [...]
THE NEW FORTY 