Hi, my name is Heather Lynne. I’m a blogger at Raising Memories where I’m usually sharing fun ideas of things you can do with & for your kids. Today Marie Leslie has been wonderful to invite me to come and share something with you. I recently wrote about my friend, her cute family, and how… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Causes
Give Hope, Give Help
I am so blessed. I work every day at my dream job. Right here between the kitchen counter and the fireplace. I sit at my desk, with the really cool computer my Geekboy and my husband custom built for me with the two monitors (yes, I am spoiled) and I write and design and create… Continue Reading
Dreams, Homes & Hope
Extreme Makeover Home Edition has been one of my favorite shows for years. Besides being a design junkie and a Ty Pennington fan, I love watching how they take a family and change not only their homes, but their lives. It has been fun watching the show over the years as it transformed from a… Continue Reading
Lottes of Love
Happy Humpday, my Molly friends. Today’s post is a guest post by one of my very favorite women. Cynthia and I met through an online forum nearly a dozen years ago. Since then, I have been privileged to meet her in person (along with her adorable boys) many times. She is one of the most… Continue Reading
SMA Awareness Month
August is Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Awareness Month. This is a cause directly intertwined with my heart, as my son has a form of SMA that will bind him to a wheelchair and ventilator in this life. He has SMA with Respiratory Distress (SMARD). SMARD is extremely rare—maybe 60 people in the world have it.SMARD… Continue Reading
June 19th, 1986
June 19th, 1986 was supposed to be a good day. Lisa Crew had a hair appointment with her sister and afterward she was going to take her two year old daughter over to her boyfriends house to have dinner. Perhaps later into the night they’d all go out to the local amusement park and spend… Continue Reading
Seek and Give
I just had to pass this information on. Someone I know and love has created a site called SeekAndGive.com “where you can help generate donations for charities by searching the Internet.”The search engine is powered by google and all you have to do is use their page to “search the web and make a difference.”… Continue Reading
lessons from a sparrow
It was a beautiful spring day, March of 2005. I was on campus at the university I attended. I had been battling a bout of depression, had been seeing a therapist on campus (that I didn’t really like) and was struggling. It was during class time and I was basically alone, in an area between… Continue Reading
A Willingness to Learn From Pain
The following quote is from Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the wife of pilot Charles Lindbergh. Their baby was kidnapped, which eventually resulted in the child’s death. In looking back on her life, Mrs. Lindbergh wrote: “I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers.… Continue Reading
"If Thou Endure It Well"
The following article is by Elder Marvin J. Ashton. When tragedy, disappointment, and heartache surface in our lives, it is not unusual for many of us to become self-condemning and resentful. In the stress of the situation we declare, “What have we done to deserve this? Why does the Lord allow this to happen to… Continue Reading