Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker One of the things you always want kids to do and even reward them to do is to clean their rooms. Lots of times, my kids would hurriedly throw everything in a closet and shut the door. I had 3 girls and 1 son and the son, believe it…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Have you ever noticed that there is one in every crowd? There is always the one person who either knows it all or “thinks he knows it all.” Who knows? However, God created us and blessed all of us with some type of talent. I think as I…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker I love food; reading recipes and the kitchen is my haven. I recently came across a food blog called Heart, Hands and Home. In a section of the blog there was information called Making Mixes 101. This caught my attention because I thought if I could make some…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker I saw this little story on Social Media and I thought it was too good not to share. Every once in a while, a ewe will give birth to a lamb and reject it. If the lamb is returned to the ewe, the mother may even kick…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker The old saying Penny for your thoughts originated in some English text by John Haewood. When these texts were written, a penny was actually a considerable amount of money in England. Adjusted for inflation, it would amount to about 1.6 pounds in English currency or $2.50 USD, today. (Wow)…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Following a two-week battle with the summer flu, I awoke early one summer morning to get errands done and to feel the breeze of a cooler summer morning. After hurriedly doing my morning chores, such as drinking coffee and feeding my cat, I got ready, got in my car…
By: Nancy Whitaker When I end my columns with, “I’ll give you a Penny for Your Thoughts” if I ever see you, I will do just that. I began writing this column after the death of my mama. She was not only my mother, but my closest and dearest friend. My mama always had a…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Whether you laugh with a tee hee or a gigantic belly laugh, it is a noise we commonly love to hear. They say I have a distinct laugh, a sound of its own. Have you ever found something so hilarious you laughed so hard that you cried? Or…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Throughout our lives, there seems like there is always something we are concerned or worried about. That’s everyday life. Even as little children we may have not liked a certain playmate. Then if you both got mad at one another, you may have cried or worried about it.…
Penny For Your Thoughts, By: Nancy Whitaker I have watched TV shows on the Discovery Channel about people with strange addictions. Aren’t we all secretly addicted to something? Do we call collecting something a hobby or an addiction? Now, when I was little, my Grandpa Anderson collected pens and pencils. I remember he had a huge trunk with…
Penny For Your Thoughts by: Nancy Whitaker I have watched TV shows on the Discovery Channel about people with strange addictions. Aren’t we all secretly addicted to something? Do we call collecting something a hobby or an addiction? Now, when I was little, my Grandpa Anderson collected pens and pencils. I remember he had…
Penny For Your Thoughts, By: Nancy Whitaker I grew up many years ago and oh how things have changed. We lived in the country, out in the boonies and the most entertainment we ever had was going to church and Sunday dinners after church. Something we had that my kids would not know about is…
Penny For Your Thoughts by: Nancy Whitaker When the days begin to get shorter ( I wish it was now) and the weather turns cooler. can you hear the crickets chirping? Now, I am definitely not fond of crickets and I usually scream when I see one, But. when I hear them chirping, I know fall is coming, school is starting and…
