What is your definition of 'success'?

The xanga featured question "What is your definition of 'success'?" was answered today in a post on my oldest daughter's blog. Please go here to read it. It's wonderful!

Fall into Reading 2007!

Thanks to my daughter's blog, I found this reading challenge. She found it here.

Here's my list.



1. Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World by Joana Weaver




2. Your Best Life Now by Joel Osteen




3. Heart of the Home by Susan Branch

4. It's Here...Somewhere by Alice Fulton

5. Get Organized, Get Published by Don Aslett and Carol Cartaino

6. The Elements of Style by Strunk and White

(photos from amazon.com and ebay.com)

How about you? Would you like to pick some titles from your bookshelves or the library and enjoy some good books with us? Click the blog link at the top of this post, and join the fun!

Show and Tell Friday

Go over to Kelli's blog for 9/21 to see her special rings. Here are mine.

my high school ring

my grandmother's diamond wedding band

The following rings are from my husband.
The fourth one is my wedding band - there is a cross on it.

What did you want to be when you were a child?

(This is a Xanga blog question.)

When I was a child, I wanted to be a teacher. (Since we're now in our fourteenth year of homeschooling, I am a teacher!)

I also wanted to design wedding dresses. (I still think that's fun!)

(No, I didn't design this dress.)

What did you want to be?

It's Show and Tell Friday! Go to Kelli's blog for details. My Show and Tell items are the decorations I put up each year in the dining room where we homeschool. An old-fashioned school desk holds two versions of the ABCs.

UPDATE: I moved my pic - yay! Thank you for the help!

My first post...

Hi, everyone. My name is Susan, and I'm happy that I belong to Jesus. I'm married, the mom of three, and the grandma of two.