This Thanksgiving I’m beyond grateful for the many blessings in my life: family friends and a satisfying career I’m passionate about.Happy Thanksgiving 2022 from my house to yours!“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”  William Arthur Ward “Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.”  Rumi“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” Albert Einstein   11/24/2022

Recently I jammed my right arm and have been icing it and went to my massage therapist. It wasn’t a fun session and I’m not looking forward to the next visit on Friday. Meanwhile I wanted to get my Christmas tree up and decorated. My daughter fit together my new tree (it has 1,800 LED lights and a remote, which I love), the day before Thanksgiving so it could set for a day or two, relax and fall out. We had no time to think about decorating at that time!   Friday some good friends came over and literally decorated the tree for me as we drank wine, champagne and nibbled on appetizers. The star was put on the top and what a great job they did. I'm so grateful for them doing this, it helped not having to reach up to put on each ornament. I love putting them up because each ornament has a s... 11/26/2022

Beautiful Beckett loves to cook, especially bake. Geno always said there were designated devil egg eating days: Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. He always made them and then passed the torch to son John about 8 years ago.             After Beckett was born, about when she was 4, she showed such an interest in cooking, she became his assistant. This year she mashed the egg yolks, diced the onion and helped stir in all the ingredients. I foresee in the future her dad will be the assistant, if he’s lucky! LOL!              "Happiness is homemade.”       "People who love to eat are always the best people." — Julia Child 11/29/2022

I love it when our NW Coldwell Banker Advisory Board takes on a project and gets it done! We met last Monday morning and several members volunteered to make calls narrowing down projects in need where we could make a difference. We are in the middle of our Toys for Tots campaign but wanted to take on another local group of families to help make a brighter Christmas.Foundation Communities still needs families to be adopted to receive Christmas presents. We now are helping make holidays brighter for two families. One has five members and the other six. They have specific gift cards they want per family members. A task we can get behind and make happen quickly.           One member brought in a pre-lighted 4 foot Christmas tree with the cutest hat topper! We brought in decorations, decorat... 11/29/2022