Another school year is just about behind us, but before you know it, another new one is around the corner. In Frisco, TX, change is the one constant when you have a growing community that builds houses and schools at a pace where it's hard to keep up.

Actually, I've kept up fine. But it seems like kids change schools more often than I change my socks. Five new schools are on the way for the district for this coming fall, and three more come to port the following...

Put the money into a new house, the stock market, or keep it at a bank: Any way you go you are investing the money. The question is: Which is the best way to invest it?

Pros/cons:
Keep it at the bank:
Pro-Money is VERY secure (You don't have it all in one account exceeding the FDIC limit do you?)
Con-You are actually losing money by the time you account for inflation.

Stock Market:
Pro-You could make a lot more money.
Con-Risk...

Yesterday, I realized that I haven't really dealt with my grief. (My grief over losing my husband and both my sons and other loved ones within a short span of time.)...I'm not "done" with the grief process. I haven't even "begun" to deal with all of my feelings!...So I decided to start a grief-journal to see if this helps me get the ball "rolling."

I love to go to the 22nd floor of the Capitol Building and peer out over Tallahassee. I like to see what I can see and pick out the features that have changed since I was there last. I homeschool my kids and tutor other people kids, so I take "field trips" up there about every six months. A lot can change in this town in six months. One thing that doesn't change is the greenery. The huge trees canvas the massive landscape all around for miles. A few building stick their heads up, peeking...

[I][FONT=Book Antiqua]As we learn forgiveness of others as it should be....It is not that we are eliminating the horrific pains that another has caused us. We have matured to greater heights, whereas, we learned that forgiveness does not cause us to be oblivious neither naïve. But learning to forgive the pain it has caused us, and understanding that no one is perfect, but gives us a very keen perception, that as long as we hold on to the pain, we have in fact entrapped our mind, spirit, soul, and...