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Pursuing Your Passion while Achieving Your Priorities

September 26, 2017 By: Miranda10 Comments

Pursuing Your Passion While Achieving Your Priorities Soy BeansSeveral years after college, I interned at the Albert B. Sabin archive in Cincinnati.  At the time, I was a single mom working full-time as a flight attendant pursuing a master’s degree in Library and Information Science  (I know, crazy, right? I’ll come back to that).  Albert B. Sabin was one of the men credited for eradicating polio with his oral polio vaccine, in this country and around the world.  We are talking huge accomplishment.   But as I combed through his life I saw all his time spent away from his family.  There were several broken relationships in his personal life.  It made me wonder.   At the end of our life what will really matter?  Does accomplishing a great goal or dream outweigh the cost to our personal life?  Is it possible to pursue your passion while achieving your priorities? [Read more…]

Calving Season at Hickory Hollow

September 13, 2017 By: Miranda8 Comments

Calving Season at Hickory Hollow cowsBig News!  It calving season at Hickory Hollow.

After waiting all summer the calves finally began to arrive Monday evening!

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Coping When Kids Leave Home Part II

August 4, 2017 By: Miranda5 Comments

Fence Coping When Kids Leave Home Part IIEarlier this week I shared Coping When Kids Leave Home Part I.  Today, I would like to share the second part of that post, Coping When Kids Leave Home Part II.  As I mentioned, it is more than just seeing your kids less.  It is a new season.  It is a reason to celebrate.  You and your child made it through the growing up years.  They are ready to leave the nest and start a new season in their life.  However, as a parent it is challenging to see our kids move forward without us.  How do we let go of one season in our relationship with our child in order to allow a new one to bloom? [Read more…]

Coping when Kids Leave Home Part I

August 1, 2017 By: Miranda16 Comments

Coping When Kids Leave HomeFall is fast approaching.  Fall is a season when many parents say good-bye to their college age children.  Last year, my Country Boy and I said good-bye to our second son as he moved out for college.  I knew it was coming, but man oh man it didn’t make it any easier.  Here are a few things I learned in the process of coping when kids leave home.  I hope that you are comforted by the realization that you are not alone as a parent, as you go through this stage.  Whether your child is leaving to join the military, moving to start life on their own or to college, it is a new season. [Read more…]

Build Your Stress Tolerance

May 26, 2017 By: Miranda9 Comments

Build Your Stress Tolerance cornDo you struggle to maintain your equilibrium through the ups and downs of life?  Does your creativity dramatically drop when the pressures of life push in on you? Do you need to discover ways to build your stress tolerance so that you feel productive and confident even in stressful times? [Read more…]

Handling Unexpected Changes in Life

March 6, 2017 By: Miranda3 Comments

You never imagined that this would happen to YOU.  You never envisioned your life as a single parent, a young widow, a victim of domestic violence or a person with a life threatening disease. Handling unexpected changes in life can be overwhelming.

Some changes will be for a season, and you can see that there is an end in sight.  But for this post I wanted to talk about those events which happen that change us forever.  They redefine the way we see ourselves.  They make us think of our life in terms of part one and part two. Before and After.

Sometimes they can come upon us slowly, like waking up one day and realizing that you are raising your grandkids.  Other times they enter fiercely and abruptly. So how do we handle these unexpected, unwelcome changes? [Read more…]

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