Time is what we want most but what we use worst. ~William Penn I’ve begun my next book. My deadline isn’t for several months, but a book has a lot of words and many scenes. So it is enough of a looming date, that I’m pushing myself into the ‘make my fingers touch the keyboard and crank out words and …
Saving Daylight
“An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.” -Winston Churchill Did you remember to spring forward this morning and make it to church on …
Gifts Made with Love
Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values. ~Thomas S. Monson Have you ever made homemade gifts for the people on your Christmas list? Sometimes that happens because we …
A Grandmother’s Time
A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend. ~Author Unknown Time – it’s been on my mind this week because of Daylight Savings Time. Mom can’t adjust to the time change very well because while she’s forgotten many things, she hasn’t forgotten that meals come at certain daylight times. Manipulating the …
Making Time
“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.” (Henry David Thoreau) How we do talk about time! We save it. We waste it. We beg for it. We need it. We wish for it. If I only had more time, we’re wont to say. With time, I could do so much more, we promise. Where did the time go, …
The Best Gift
My daughter and her dog, Sumo “Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it, you can never get it back.” (Harvey MacKay) Time – sometimes it seems there’s never enough time to get everything we need to do done. That’s …
The Gift of Time
Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back. (Harvey MacKay) That’s a great quote for a day when we were gifted with an extra hour. Of course most of us slept through our gift …
VBS and Finding Time to Get It All Done
Hi again, everybody. Are you like me and not finding enough hours in the day to do everything that needs doing? Truth is, I’ve been letting a lot of things that need doing slip by not done. I’m going to have to get going on cleaning my house soon or well, I guess it’ll just get more in need of …
Time in May to Enjoy
Here it is May already and such a beautiful May day here in Central Kentucky this first Sunday of the month. Yesterday was Derby Day and while the weathermen threatened rain and storms it turned out to be a beautiful afternoon for everybody who takes part in Derby activities. The night before wasn’t quite as nice for the Derby parties …