"...but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.” Luke 10:42 ESV Last weekend was my birthday weekend, and although we did a great amount of celebrating, I have been in denial about this particular age change since May. For some reason, the number 35 hit me hard, so I've been doing a lot of thinking as to why that is. In my pondering, I realized that I had many goals I wanted to complete by age 35. A lot of them I have d

Summertime = vacation season! When my husband and I plan our travel, we do our best to plan for a vacation and not a trip. To us, a trip involves spending lots of time coordinating tourist packages at our destination and less time resting and enjoying the destination for what it's worth. On our cruises, we see countless exhausted people rushing to their next shore excursion and we've decided that's not our style! For our vacations, I would say one of our biggest must-dos thou