By: Sandra L. Churchill Slaying the diabetes dragon often takes many tries—and multiple ventures into the same battle scene. For me, a year of trying to eliminate nearly all carbs was disastrous and completely fruitless. Turns out my liver decided to make its own sugar so my A1C didn’t change at all after spending 12 … More The Battle Renewed—Slaying the Diabetes Dragon
By: Sandra L. Churchill The temperature today hit 90 degrees and morning dew was heated to a mist nearly at dawn. In recent days, summer has surely arrived. Sunlight is blazing down, meadow flowers are blooming, and the earth is warm and green. School is out for some and in the home-stretch for others. At … More Summer Wishes
By: Sandra L. Churchill Everybody needs a Nana, a Grammy, or a loving Nonny to guide, hug, bake, and nurture us along life’s bumpy roads. As a part-time newspaper reporter, one of the sweetest privileges is the ability to interview centenarians for local human interest stories. These “100th birthday” stories are among the favorites of … More Golden Wisdom
We are excited to introduce you to our new Signature Mommy bloggers! They come from towns across our region including Brockton, Weymouth, Braintree, Taunton and Stoughton. We can’t wait for you to get to know them better and for these amazing women to share their lives with us. Below is a sneak peak at the women who will join our … More Announcing Our New Signature Mommy Bloggers!
By: Sandra L. Churchill Amid the stresses of crazy routines, household chores, paying bills, parenting challenges, and the ups and downs of discipline, movies can sometimes offer a wonderful reprieve. True, a two-hour escape is hardly a vacation, but it can be the equivalent of a nap to a stressed-out day, a drink of water … More Film for the Soul
We’re excited to announce that we’re sponsoring another Signature Moms Blog Contest! All mothers in the South Shore area of Massachusetts are invited to enter from April 2, 2014 to May 1, 2014. The contest will culminate with four or five moms winning $250 each. Selected moms will join Sandy Churchill, Anne Marie Holloway, Janice … More Attention Area Moms: Here’s Your Chance to Become a Signature Mommy Blogger!
By: Sandra L. Churchill In the month of snowy days, groundhogs, and valentines, I thought it would be fitting to share some “love wisdom” from Gary Chapman’s Five Love Languages book series. The book breaks down the way we perceive and show love into five general categories: quality time, acts of service, words of affirmation, … More Learning the Love Languages
By: Sandra L. Churchill Somewhere on this weekend’s to-do list is a little “key surgery.” Two things gave this task a coveted place on my trusty notepad of action items. First, a kindly librarian in our tiny town frowned in disapproval when I hefted my numchucks-sized wad of keys on the counter in a quest … More Identi-key Crisis
By: Sandra L. Churchill Is it age or wisdom when our New Year’s resolutions looming on the horizon are all about healthy habits? I’m going to be optimistic and hope it’s wisdom. At our house, and among all our family and friends, are health goals that seem to echo the same mantras: cut stress, increase … More Slaying the Diabetes Dragon
By: Sandra L. Churchill “The stockings are hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there…” Clement C. Moore might have been talking about toys and sugarplums in his classic “The Night Before Christmas,” but we moms are a bit more practical! I took some time during the latest … More Grown-up Christmas List
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