“Date with Daughter” Napa Valley Wine Country-California

Sometimes when an opportunity to travel and make a “date” with your daughter presents itself, you just have to take it.  So it was with our eldest daughter, Alaina and the chance to spend “Momma/Daughter Date” time together in California, exploring wineries and food in Napa Valley.  I flew to San Francisco for a ten-day…

There’s More than “ONE” Way to Become a Family…

As I sit on the beach and watch the families play in the surf,  I can’t help but notice how carefree they look, how much they enjoy their day just being together.  Of course, I don’t know any of their stories…but they each have one…and I want to share our’s  with you…I want to give you…

“Date Days” with Our Kids…

    I’ve enjoyed MOST every stage of watching our children grow up, but I think, the one I look forward to the most now, is the time I get to spend with each of my GROWN-UP children, just one-on-one.  Maybe it’s because our roles have shifted over the years, and time spent together seems…

“When It Is Dark Enough You Can See the Stars….”

I’ve always been a star-gazer…not the Hollywood star-gazer type, but the “stars of the heavens” star-gazer… Many times while in the Army, up and at work long before sunrise and long after sunset, I would gaze at those same stars, feeling comforted by their beauty and constancy in the sky.  I could always find Big…

We’re having a BABY!!

Few phrases in the human languages can bring so many emotions to the surface so quickly…amazement, wonder, joy, fear. So it was, with Mr. D & me, after 3 years of marriage we felt “ready” for the parenting roller coaster. Did I mention that I still was in the Army? My monthly paycheck was a…