Category Archives: Videos

{Mexican Jumping Beans!!}

A few months ago my husband had a business trip and picked these guys up at one of the AiPpOrT sHoPs.  When he held them out to my girls and they began to “JuMp” my first response was, “What’s the catch?”   Turns out there is no catch.  They actually do “jump”, as there is aContinue reading “{Mexican Jumping Beans!!}”

So God Made a Farmer

This week there was haRveSt on the Shoup farm.  We had a drought this year and the beans could have been better, but it is always a fUn time of year because the colors are changing, the weather is enjoyable, and we finally get to reap the benefits of all of our haRd work. TheContinue reading “So God Made a Farmer”

I’ve Gotta Feelin’

Having a RoUgH start to your week?  Try my QuiCk fiX to reverse the feeling of a bad day. P.S.  I don’t know HOW MANY times I’ve listened to this to give me a little boost.  So much so that when this song siNgs from my office, my daughter immediately runs as fast as sheContinue reading “I’ve Gotta Feelin’”

When The World Stopped Turning

Teaching a class full of InNoCeNt children is exactly what I was doing “WhEn tHe WorLd StOpPeD tUrNiNg”. While my class of first graders were getting ready to have their morning snack, our school nurse came to my room and told me that two planes had crashed into the twin towers. I had just beenContinue reading “When The World Stopped Turning”

{A Lesson From H.S. Seniors} – “Live Like You Were Dying”

I first heard this song at a HiGh ScHoOl GrAdUaTiOn sung by a group of SeNiOrS.  What made this song so PoiGnAnT and left an ImPrEsSiOn was the fact that they had experienced, first hand, how short life can be.  One of their classmates had died the previous year of cancer.  They dedicated this song to her. I especiallyContinue reading “{A Lesson From H.S. Seniors} – “Live Like You Were Dying””

Country Roads Take Me Home!

In my opinion, there are few things as good for the SouL as a drive in the CoUnTrY.  If you need a break from the rat race or just want a slower pace grab your keys and EnJoY the countryside.  Need a good song?  John Denver’s, CoUnTrY RoAdS is one song my family and I love to beltContinue reading “Country Roads Take Me Home!”

One Unique Gift

One of my favorite things about the internet is YouTube.  (Have you noticed?!)  At different times I will check out a favorite song.  Maybe it’s a song from the 80’s or 90’s as I reminisce about those high school and college days, a sentimental/NoStaLgiC song, a favorite love song, an inspirational song, a song toContinue reading “One Unique Gift”