Why not enjoy a movie as a family - and make it my favorite bear, Winnie the Pooh. Yes books and movies are fun so are stuffed animals of the bear I love. Yes, my senior high school pictures may have involved some of these bears as evidenced by the pictures that can be unearthed [...]
Category: Mackenzie
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
Did you know that September is a month of educating and teaching... no not in the normal format of everyone goes back to school in September education. The month is dedicated to going gold for Childhood Cancer. Have you ever had to face something so heart wrenching as helping a family member through cancer? Have [...]
Compassion and dignity
I started this blog on the morning of my 38th birthday it is now the day before my 39th birthday so I have edited this and added some more to what I did in my 38th year related to compassion and dignity. I woke up with the words Compassion and Dignity running through my head [...]
Date a volunteer she said
Date a volunteer my mom said... well that's what happened (even if I don't always love admitting Mom was right). My husband, Chris, and I met online. I gave him a chance because his online profile said he volunteered with a group of friends. Little did I know that those friends would soon become my [...]
‘Up North’ and new experiences
The adventures of the Thompson family took us on a week-long vacation where we stayed at Sandy Pines Resort in Backus, MN, at the end of June. This was our first full week of vacation since Mackenzie was born in 2014. We were all very happy to adventure together to a new resort. On the [...]
The Family Thompson 