Tag: vacation

• A Vacation Filled with Kind Strangers

  Last week Mim and I returned home from our third vacation of the year. We’re making up for the past 16 years of almost no vacations while we were doing assisted living in our home. This vacation had lessons for us to learn just as our earlier two vacations this year had. Our July vacation…

  Marian

  November 8, 2019

  Book Recommendations, bucket list, Nature, Reflections, Vacations

  Cape Cod, Cape Cod National Seashore, Cleveland, fall colors, fall foliage, Finger Lakes, Indiana Dunes National Park, kind people, kind strangers, kindness, kindness of strangers, Lebanese restaurant, make someone’s day, Mike McIntyre, National Women’s Rights Historical Park, October vacation, paid for dinner, Penniless across America, Plainfield CT, random act of kindness, school security guard, Seneca Falls, Sturbridge Village, The Kindness of Strangers, timeshare, vacation, women’s movement

• Vacation Needed!

  “Hey, Mom, we need to talk. These last few weeks have been very different. You and Mim went away on vacation and you didn’t take me along. Instead you sent me away to stay with a couple different friends. Why did you do that? I don’t understand. Why did you go on vacation?” Floey looked…

  Marian

  August 7, 2019

  Celebrations, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  conversation with Floey, country church, family friends, getting stuck, God’s protection, Golden Valley Church, Hettinger, Howe Hereford Ranch, Howe Herefords, North Dakota, picnic, road trip, South Dakota, stuck in the mud, Teddy Roosevelt National Park, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Tip Top Motel, vacation, wedding

• The Joy of Being a Piece of the Puzzle

  

  I’m drafting this blog post on Thursday morning. I plan to post it on Tuesday, my usual day for posting to WhisperingWindsBlog.com. I’m writing this post so early because I plan to spend a few days at our Christmas Mountain timeshare, and I want to spend my time reading, walking, and putting together a picture…

  Marian

  April 12, 2016

  God’s Love, Jail Ministry, Lent, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  big picture, Christmas Mountain, Dane County Jail, humbled, jail, jigsaw puzzle, joy, Lent Devotionals, life story, Maundy Thursday, Messiah Lutheran Churc, picture puzzle, piece of the puzzle, pieces of God’s puzzle, pieces of the same puzzle, puzzle, separate vacations, stay awake, testimony, timeshare, vacation