I'm Needing A Cruise!

Today is the last day to enter the contest to win a trip for 2 on CWO Magazine's Girl's Get-A-Way Cruise with Candace Cameron Bure. I couldn't resist entering and having a little fun spoofing the theme from The Love Boat. Corny, I know!

CWO’s Girl’s Get-A-Way Cruise
"Come aboard, we’re expecting you."
To win would be such fun, I’m sure,
And to meet Candace Cameron Bure!

The Get-A-Way Cruise will be making its premier run,
The Get-A-Way Cruise promises something for everyone:
Meet new friends on this special retreat at sea,
It would be such a fabulous treat for me!

With a friend I am longing to get away,
Just relax, be refreshed & renewed and just play!
Great music and speakers would warm my heart;
Let me come! Just tell me when it will depart!

How I need this so – I am looking for some relief
Life’s been hectic, and my mom’s death has caused me grief.
A Premier cruise, such a fabulous vacation!
To win, would define the word “elation.”

CWO, won’t you please call me and say,
“Yes, you’ve won the Girl’s Get-A-Waayyy-aayyy-aayyyy!”

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Giveaway at the Cafe

My summer is messin' with my bloggin'.

Since I just began blogging in January, I got rather spoiled. It was easy to send the kids to school and settle with my laptop and coffee for some inspiration, laughter, and friendship.

Now the kids are home and I'm getting up later and I'm all off-kilter. Not to mention that it's kind of awkward and pointless if I'm screeching preaching training up my children that the way they should go is not parking in front of the computer all day and yet I'm velcroed to mine.

When I was in Houston I even got out of sync with stopping by CWO's Internet Cafe for their devotional each morning. I've missed that. And almost missed this:

The Cafe is serving a Giveaway to help folks like me get back on track. There are 3 ways to enter, but you have to do it by this Sunday, June 29 at 9 PM CST. All the details are here. And who better to win the book Mocha with Max than I?!



I will say one thing for less computer time: it's not as much fun, but it is more productive. It was long overdue, but I finally got my big freezer defrosted today!

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A Winner! Plus, Some Odds & Ends

I was so touched by your comments about being in the Sandwich Generation as well as the emails some of you sent. This is definitely an issue that strikes a chord with many of us. I would love to give each of you a hug and a copy of the book!

But I only have one copy to give. So congratulations to Kelli, whose name was picked in the drawing! Kelli, please email me your address and I'll get it in the mail to you right away.

And just in case there are any CPA/Auditor types reading this: please note that I folded all names into the same size, placed them in the bowl, closed my eyes, prayed while I stirred them, and pulled one out! Whew! I'm just glad I wasn't an Old Testament priest in charge of the Urim and Thummim!

I'll be having some more book giveaways in the days to come, so hopefully it will get easier. This is an area where I need to toughen up and ignore my empathetic nature!


I would like to say hello and welcome to any of you who have stopped by my blog thanks to CWO's recognition in their April issue. I'm still getting my jaw off the floor. For a brief moment, I thought it might have been an April Fool's joke! Seriously, if you do not visit that site regularly, especially their Internet Cafe for a daily devotional, you are missing a blessing.


The Ladies Bible Study at my church has just a couple more weeks left on our whirlwind overview of the entire Bible. We've called it The Big Picture, and while there are some chapters here and there in some of the prophets, I & II Chronicles, and the gospels to read during the summer, by mid-April we will have pretty much covered the entire Bible in chronological order this school year.

Today's lecture was on James, I & II Peter, I, II, III John, and Jude. Shoulda worn the steel-toed shoes for this one, as quite a few convicting messages are found in those books regarding holy living. However, not to be prideful or anything, I did discover that I recently have been applying the major theme of III John. In spades!

That would be offering hospitality and a place to stay to traveling missionaries. And it didn't say a word about Scrabble. Or letting the missionary win.

Just so you know.

If you need me, I'll be reviewing the verses in I Peter 5 on humility now. . . .

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