Last September was the first Cornerstone Content Blog Challenge and for Day 6 the topic is content that evokes emotion. I wrote about Lia’s 2nd birthday party on how it was a day filled with emotions of happiness. http://themarthareview.com/emotions-of-happiness-lias-2nd-birthday-party/ For today’s blog I was going to write this for yesterday’s topic about memories since this fits under that topic also. But what a better topic to write about that evokes emotion than that of your first born child. Rich and I were excited when we learned we were expecting our
Day 5 of the Cornerstone Content Blog Challenge is to write about content that revives memories. Every Christmas I pull out some special items to display to keep the Christmas memories of mom with us. I don’t remember when mom made this little cross-stitched church but it’s under our tree every year. I think it was around the 1960’s and she even made little stained glass windows out of colored cellophane paper. How they glisten when the light inside the church is on. There is a little bell in the
Today is Friday Story Time by Lia and it just so happens that the topic for the Cornerstone Content Blog Challenge today is content that tells a story. This is the Christmas Light Show story told through the eyes of a child. So Lia will get right to the to her story! What an exciting time I had last night when mommy, pop, mama and I went to the Christmas light show at the North Myrtle Beach Sports Park. This show is so fun to see all the lights on
Today is Day 3 of the Cornerstone Content Blog Challenge and the topic is to encourage. My great granddaughter loves to do everything on her own and I think it’s great to encourage little ones. Whether it’s getting dressed or getting ready for bed, Lia knows what she wants to wear. We always encourage her when she’s doing things on her own. Her favorite things to do are crafts and baking. While mommy or I are always with her and encouraging her when doing her projects she always wants to
For Day 2 of the Cornerstone Content Blog Challenge I’m revealing a cake recipe without eggs. Throughout this challenge I will be grasping at straws on some of the topics but hey it certainly is a super challenge that challenges me! But it’s also Day 2 of the Christmas Blogmas challenge! Our great grandboys, Noah and Alek spent the day with us on Saturday and you probably already figured out that I asked if they wanted to do some baking. 4 year old Alek was all excited and ready to