by cazmac9910 | Aug 4, 2019 | Life, Oozing
After a frustrating and exhausting end to our family vacation, Joe and I had to leave the house to get groceries. We went to our local Wal-Mart and made it in the doors just as a summer rain began. The breeze was cool and big, fat raindrops began to fall. We made our...
by cazmac9910 | Jul 8, 2019 | gratitude, Life, Oozing, Uncategorized
As the wife of a United Methodist pastor, home is not necessarily one place. Where I grew up is no longer home because my parents have both passed away and our lives have taken us to a new way of life in ministry. We have lived in five different homes in the past...
by cazmac9910 | Jun 24, 2019 | Family, Oozing, Uncategorized
My heart walks on two very handsome legs in the world. My firstborn, my Julian. He is the one that made me a mother twenty-three years ago. The moment he was laid on my chest, I fell into an “overwhelming-love at first sight-suffocating kind of love” that is hard to...
by cazmac9910 | Jun 17, 2019 | Faith, Illness, Oozing, Uncategorized
I don’t know that I’ve ever been as sick as I was as last week. I kept feeling worse and the pain in my ribs and back was excruciating. Worse than after my neck surgery and worse than pneumonia. As I was lying in bed Saturday night, I reached over to my nightstand and...
by cazmac9910 | Jun 2, 2019 | gratitude, Mental Health, Oozing, Uncategorized
I am listening to the kids play basketball outside of my window as the evening storms are about to begin. The house is quiet, my son will go to hemophilia camp tomorrow and I have 2/3rds of my final paper for the quarter left to complete and submit. Then I will have...
by cazmac9910 | May 13, 2019 | Body Image, Faith, Family, gratitude, Oozing, Uncategorized
I celebrated Mother’s Day a little early this year. We met up with Julian on Saturday and spent the day shopping, talking and having a meal together. No one was rushing, we were taking our time and enjoyed each other’s company. It was a great day. I insisted on...
