MrsDeveterI shared with y’all how I’ve started to practice mindfulness meditation and I’ve discovered again that YouTube is AMAZING! A good friend of mine shared a Christian focused mindfulness video that was beautiful. What I found was that 20 mins is to long for me right now. I found a 7 min video and it’s […]
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. This is an important month to me because so many of my loved ones have been involved in some type of domestic violence.
Hey Y’all, It’s been way to long since I’ve posted. I just wasn’t feeling it. But this year I’m making an effort to post to my blog more often, in hopes that it will help me get my thoughts out, providing me the ability to sift through my feelings about my latest life events. On […]
This month you’ll see lots of pink and purple. October is Domestic Violence and Breast Cancer Awareness month. These causes are near to my heart because I lost two of my aunts and a host of loved ones to breast cancer and I come from a family with domestic violence in our veins. Every October […]
Hey Y’all, For the past 10 years, the Disney Dreamers Academy has inspired the dreams of high school students, changed lives, and positively impacted communities by investing in future leaders in the African-American community. I have had the pleasure of attending Disney Dreamers Academy as media and loved every single moment of the 4-day experience […]
Watch this video first… I know that we all get busy and sometimes forgetful but I can’t image forgetting my child in the car. My mother has 9 children and NEVER have we EVER left a child behind. This video is really scary to me so I had to share it with you. My […]
There are many ways to tie shoelaces. The bunny ear technique, the circle technique, and the magic fingers (which I’ve never heard of) technique. This post, however, is not about tying shoes it’s about a father’s patience while teaching his son how to tie his shoes. Those of you who have read my posts in […]
Change is a verb, a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence. Change = make or become different, take or use another instead of. According to Benjamin Disraeli “Change is inevitable. Change is constant.” Change is not a dirty word, it’s life-altering and can be really really good.  Recently I was part of a major […]
In celebration of Mother’s Day, all week I will celebrate some of the Working Mama’s in my life who are making it HAPPEN. Today’s feature is the extraordinary, super talented Melissa Leraye Legions. Melissa is the mom of one of Leah’s BFF’s Kayla Joie, she is a dancer, choreographer, entrepreneur and all around bundle of unprecedented talent. Here’s […]
Once a man, twice a child means exactly that. We are born dependent upon our care givers, using walkers and aides to help us get around; we then become adults. Self sufficient, taking care of ourselves and families. Then we grow in age and become reliant upon someone to take care of us; using walkers, needing assistance with feeding and some wearing diapers.
MrsDeveter 