Category Archives: Inspirational

These items are meant to encourage and uplift. Highly shareable!

Things I Am Thankful For Every Single Day

  • My family – Every single one of them
  • My FFOs, the Dawetselbees, and all my other chosen Framily
  • My job– I love what I do!
  • Where I live
  • Awesome coworkers
  • Fall colors
  • Lake front property
  • Vacations – especially beaches!
  • People that make my life better because they are in it
  • Churches that have been home
  • The peace that passes understanding
  • Changing seasons
  • Cherished memories
  • Each moment I spend with my granddaughters

Write a New Chapter

  • Turn the page
  • Take the next step
  • Follow the path
  • Make a leap of faith
  • Sail, don’t drift
  • Move into your future
  • Embrace the change
  • Get dressed for the new season
  • Launch

A Very Moving List

  • Moving on
  • Moving on up
  • I like to move it move it
  • Move on over
  • Moved to tears
  • Beethoven’s third movement
  • Barely moving
  • Moving at the speed of light
  • Moving to a new location
  • Moving company
  • Moving away
  • Moving forward

Thirty Amazing Things About My Son Who Turns 30 Today

  • He is deeply empathetic and genuinely cares about people
  • He’s a super involved father
  • He understands science and math and the world on a conceptual level
  • He isn’t afraid to speak up for someone who needs it
  • He accepts everyone exactly as they are
  • He is married to his highschool sweetheart
  • He always says sweet things about her when she isn’t around
  • He is adventerous
  • There isn’t a food he won’t try
  • While visiting somewhere new, he refuses to eat at any restaurant he could go to at home
  • He’s an excellent cook
  • He reads to his daughters
  • He loves his grandparents and communicates with them regularly
  • He’s calm under pressure
  • He never went through a “my parents embarrass me” phase
  • On a group outing at the age of 10, he saved his sack lunch to give to the homeless man we’d passed on the way there
  • He’s always been my video game buddy
  • He is super creative
  • His skills as a D&D DM rival those of any fiction novelist
  • He is musical
  • He has a freaky good ear for sounds and tones and can hear things nobody else can hear
  • For example, if he hears loose change drop on the ground, he can tell you exactly how much it is
  • He can fix things
  • His sense of humor cracks me up
  • He is kind
  • He has the ability to look beyond the surface level of any given situation
  • He has a broad perspective of life in general
  • He loves his family with everything in him
  • He memorizes random and ridiculous things
  • He is the best kid ever (except for Jesus)

Meaningful Questions to Ask to Get to Know Someone On a Deeper Level

  • What is one new thing you’d like to accomplish over the next year?
  • Where is somewhere you’ve never been that you would like to go?
  • When you are feeling overwhelmed or sad, where is the place you would like to retreat to?
  • What is the last song that made you cry?
  • What is a cherished childhood memory?
  • What is something you have done that was out of your comfort zone but you’re glad you did it?
  • What is the last thing you tried and completely failed at?
  • How many times have you been “in love”?
  • What is the difference between loving someone and being in love?
  • What is one thing you try to do every day?
  • If you were to write a book about your life, what would this chapter be called?
  • What would your favorite chapter be called?
  • When was the last time you laughed so hard you couldn’t breathe, and what caused it?
  • When your mind wanders, who do you think of?
  • What is something you’ve done recently that you’re proud of?
  • How do you know when it is enough?
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