Wife, mom, writer, Christ-follower, reader, knitter, baker... writing about life in general and everything that goes along with it.
From the monthly archives:
I love to play boardgames. And in my ongoing quest to play more boardgames, I’ve found that one effective strategy is to force invite my children to play games with me. With C(11), it’s pretty easy — he’ll play any number of fun games with me as long as he’s in the right mood. But it’s a [...]
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Melissa from Breath of Life is starting a new carnival today: The Week in Words. The idea is simple. Participants post quotes from whatever reading they did that week — any quotes that stood out to them, touched them, made them laugh, whatever. And the source can be any kind of reading — blogs, magazines, books. As long as [...]
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For months, now, my mind has been restless.
While part of me is pretty sure I have enough on my plate with just the basic, everyday tasks that come with being a wife, a mom, a volunteer… another part of me is curious, searching, looking for something new.
Something new to learn.
Oh, I don’t want to ditch [...]
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So. We’re home.
Oh, you didn’t even know we went away?
Yes, we did. But since I figure it’s not a good idea to announce to the entire Internet that, “We will be gone for the next four days, so our house and all our belongings are left unguarded and vulnerable”…I didn’t mention it.
But now we’re back, [...]
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I admit, I don’t join a lot of reading challenges. I usually host two challenges per year (Fall Into Reading and Spring Reading Thing), and in between those challenges, I’m often ready to enjoy some unstructured, rambling reading.
But there are two reading challenges in the works this year that I simply couldn’t resist.
You already know [...]
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L. (3) is often concerned with how I am feeling.
For example, though he seems to have no problem whatsoever with disobeying and defying me multiple times per hour, he would prefer for me to remain perpetually “Happy.” (And, when I appear to be not-so-happy — such as when I discipline him for the aforementioned disobedience and defiance — he’s [...]
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L. (3) was happily playing with Legos yesterday morning. He received a Lego fire station set for Christmas and has spent a good portion of the last week creating everything but a fire station with it. In fact, whenever I’ve attempted to help him turn the pile of Legos into the item pictured on the [...]
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To Chad, my husband:
Happy Sixteenth Anniversary!
I couldn’t have asked for a better husband.
You balance me, encourage me, love me, take care of me.
It’s true, we were practically kids when we got married, which meant that things weren’t always easy.
But I’ve loved growing with you, beside you.
It’s been absolutely worth it.
And I’m looking forward to what [...]
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