This past Saturday, I baked a cake. I’m not talking about just opening up a box. I’m talking about dragging out the KitchenAid mixer (dusting it off) and measuring some stuff. My man loves him some wedding cake. So, I had this bright idea to bake a wedding cake for Father’s day. I laid out the choices for him, white cake with white icing, white with chocolate,  chocolate cake with white icing (which is his…

While attending Christy Wright’s Business Boutique a few weeks ago, I saw this phrase… Do you have dreams and goals for the future? The perfectionist in me struggles with dreaming. I mean, if I don’t dream or have a goal, I can’t miss it, can I? It seems I have been surrounded lately with people who want me to dream. Uncomfortable questions like, “If money were no object and it didn’t depend on your ability.”…

“It was a beautiful thing that you came alongside me in my troubles.” Philippians 4:14 (MSG) I looked in her eyes and I saw pain. Not for herself but for me. My dear friend shared in my troubles as I have shared in hers over the years. Girlfriends are a necessity, don’t you think? I’m not talking about friends that happen to be girls. I’m talking about Lucy and Ethel, Laverne and Shirley, Monica, Phoebe…

“Look to the right and see – there is none who takes notice of me…” Psalm 142:4 (ESV) Sometimes it helps to just notice. To honor someone with notice. We rush through life and never see the housekeeper at work, the guy who delivers the supplies or our husband who plugged our phone in last night. There are so many people who make our lives better. Who do jobs with little thanks. Some of them…