Gretchen Gotthart Skeldon, a friend from my days at Libbey Inc., died on February 17th after a long battle with breast cancer.  Even though the phrase “one of a kind” can be over used, it really did apply to her. She was kind, beautiful, brilliant, and generous.  She had an unshakable faith in God that [...]

I watched an interesting interview on Fox News. Patty Ann Brown spoke with Dr. David Colbert who wrote the book The High School Reunion Diet.  He said we can look 20 years younger in one month by eating more natural foods. To begin, he said to avoid high fructose corn syrup sugars (Which I already [...]

My family and I will be busy all day with fun Christmas activities but I wanted to wish all my Up North Mommy readers a very Merry Christmas. Have a joyous time with your families and don’t drink too much eggnog! If you have little kids like I do, be sure to head over NORAD [...]

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It’s hard to believe that a little girl who has such a complicated open heart surgery just two weeks ago is now home. Remember how she looked after surgery? This is how she looked yesterday right before being discharged: My sister-in-law attributes her swift recovery to all the prayers that so many strangers have been [...]

Kate is doing so much better.  It’s simply amazing and your prayers are such a significant reason: Kate had a very good day today! What a turn-around in the past 24 hours! She has been smiling, playing, and even laughing out loud. I know that last night, there were many churches praying for her during [...]

Thanks to all of you who are praying for Kate. She is doing better and had a good night last night. Her blood pressure is up because her body isn’t dumping as much fluid as before. Hallelujah! Please keep up the prayers because they’re working. Karin has more updates on her blog so check in [...]

If you can offer additional prayers, I would greatly appreciate it. Karin updated at 9:00am today: Good news is that Kate is still stable. Bad news is that they haven’t found a great way to get all her meds into her. Basically, they are going to have to infuse some of them faster, stop, change [...]

My little niece, Kate, had open heart surgery on Monday. She has a rare condition where her heart is upside down and on the wrong side of her chest. My sister-in-law and her husband knew this about Kate and adopted her anyway because they feared she would die in China. If you could offer any [...]

Matthew 28:1-10 After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. His [...]