by Norma Thatcher | Mar 21, 2017 | Inspirational, Spiritual, Thought provoking
I’m not the “plant person” in the family; my husband is. It usually works like this: I find something I like, he plants it and cares for it while I sit back and enjoy it. Hey, it works for us. The Better Homes and Garden magazine of February 2011 featured an article...
by Norma Thatcher | Mar 18, 2017 | Family, Humor, Inspirational, Love, Spiritual, Thought provoking
One of my big projects for 2016 was something I had put off for years: making for my family eight individually-specific memory books of my son Tim who died in 2008. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to perform this labor of love, you understand. It just seemed...
by Norma Thatcher | Mar 11, 2017 | Family, Inspirational, Love, Spiritual, Thought provoking, Words
We’re all familiar with the story line: Long ago in a faraway kingdom, a baby was born in the palace. Everyone was so excited! But no one was more overjoyed than the twelve fairy godmothers because they were entrusted with each bestowing upon the royal child a special...
by Norma Thatcher | Mar 7, 2017 | Family, Humor, Inspirational, Spiritual, Thought provoking
When my children were young readers, I’d go to the library near my work with a “shopping list.” Laura was into the Baby-sitters Club series, and Tim’s choice was the kid-scary books by R.L. Stine called Goosebumps. Thinking about the Stine series makes me consider...
by Norma Thatcher | Mar 4, 2017 | Healthy Living, Inspirational, Spiritual, Thought provoking
Psalm 90 is a prayer of Moses. In verse 12 Moses implores God to “teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” Are you amazed as I am about how quickly life passes by? Each month goes by in a blink. Some people have the daily habit of X-ing out the...
by Norma Thatcher | Feb 21, 2017 | Humor, Inspirational, Spiritual, Thought provoking
Earlier today I was trying to get my 96 pound dog Riley to sit on a rock with me so I could snap a selfie of the two of us. Wait. If there’s more than one person in the shot, shouldn’t it be called an usie? Selfie2? (And please don’t bother trying to convince the dog...
