From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Winning in Life

June 30, 2009

One thing I love about life and friendship is cheering each other on. Today, I get the opportunity to cheer on one of my newest friends, Michelle Prince. Michelle has stepped out of the box, she has put pen to paper and has written her first book and I couldn’t be more proud of her. [...]

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Common Decency

June 25, 2009

Well friends I have just returned from my son’s award ceremony and I am off again in 10 minutes to my daughters (different divisions at school). It was lovely, the teachers made a huge effort to make it great for the students and the parents. Needless to say, the students loved the flashing cameras, the [...]

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Well friends as some of you know, this weekend we hosted a FEAR FACTOR Party to my son, Gabriel, who turned 8. It was an awesome party with some crazy, crazy concoctions. If you ever want to host a party like this, stick with the ideas below and it will be a hit.
To begin my [...]

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Parents Listen Up

June 18, 2009

Today I hosted a sobering show on ‘Real Life with Susan & Friends’  on blogtalkradio. I encourage every parent and grandparent to listen to the show. My guest was Liz, a young mother of two. She has a 9 year old boy and a 6 year old girl and together with her husband they are [...]

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Weekend Fun

June 15, 2009

Wow ….. what a weekend. I’m so grateful Monday has arrived. We had the busiest weekend of the year I’m sure. Here’s a glimpse of our activity:
Friday Night – Book Club summer finale at our house (my book club so hubby took the kids to the movies).
Saturday – 2-hour dance full dress rehersal, bbq lunch [...]

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Living Large

June 11, 2009

I’m sitting here 4:45pm on Thursday afternoon contemplating the weeks ahead of me. I’m so excited for the kids to be finished school and for summer holidays to finally be here. In order to actually get to the long, lazy, no routine days we need to survive the next two weeks.
There lies my challenge. Surviving [...]

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New Things Ahead

June 7, 2009

Well friends I am SO excited about this new site. We are almost there…… Thanks to Deborah, one of my dearest friends, we are on the cusp of doing new and exciting things through this site.
Deborah, there aren’t enough words to  thank you for all you have done on this site. My friend, you have [...]

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