Mom of 8, Published Author,and REALTOR® in DFW Homes - Ta-Dah!

Several years ago when I was still in the “honeymoon” stage of cooking, we had Thanksgiving meal with all the relatives at our house. (The “honeymoon” stage is when you want everything to be really cute and perfect.  The smallest failure can result in tears.) It was my opportunity to “shine” for ...

 Seriously! Active Rain is an amazing community of people. I mistakenly thought it was simply a little network of agents. Initially I thought, why would I want to take time out of my day to connect with other agents? Besides how personal could it be? This leads me to the first thing I learned. #1...

I know that not everyone has eight kids like I have and that laundry isn't quite as big of an issue for most people. However, it is not an afterthought for us. It doesn't matter if you're a single person or if you are like my friends who have adopted nineteen kids. Laundry has to be thought about...

All too often when I'm thinking of what I'm thankful for, I just kind of lump all of my children together in one group. Today however, I'm going to focus on my youngest son, Bryan who is now twelve. Today I got to take him to his last football game of the season. I'm thankful that I have a career...

This is Day 4 of my personal NOPOOGRA (NOvember POsts Of GRAtitude) where I find five things to be thankful for each day. It's amazing how I'm searching and finding some random things to be thankful for.  Today, was pretty easy for me because I got to spend it with my best friend, Tamara. She als...

Part 2 in the "How I Went Broke Selling Real Estate" series Tweet Tweet The popularity of my first post "I Worked So Much, I Went Broke" has fueled me to write more about what I learned to create a successful business, by first going broke. Because of Active Rain, I'm even being asked to speak on...

You know, without me, I wouldn't be here. So today on Day 3 of my NOPOOGRA challenge to come up with five things I'm thankful for each day, I'm going to focus on being thankful for me!  It doesn't matter if you have 8 kids like me, if you're single like me, work from home doing several different ...

We hear the catch phrase all the time, "It's how you look at things." But it's not just a phrase, if you put into place the reality of that and change the way you look at things, it will make all the difference in the world. When you find yourself complainging about something, stop and consider w...

There is only one way I know of to keep from having a sucky life. It has nothing to do with what happens to you. It has nothing to do with money. It has nothing to do with how well your business is doing. It has everything...did I say everything?...did the word "everything" stick in your mind?......