Wife, mom, writer, Christ-follower, reader, knitter, baker… writing about life in general and everything that goes along with it.
From the category archives:
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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He Is Risen
The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead…”
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L. came out of Sunday School today, excited — as usual — to tell me what they had done. They had snacks, they sang songs, they talked to “Bubba” — a sheep puppet who entertains them every week, dearly loved by all the children — and they learned about Jesus.
“What did you learn about Jesus?” I asked.
He handed me his coloring paper — a simple [...]
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Okay, I thought that title would be a good one for attracting people to my blog via Google searches. After all, many readers find me when they do a search for “something died in my wall” or “my child eats carpet fuzz,” so why not expand my search engine reach by blogging about two pervasive [...]
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Happy New Year!
Okay, I know that technically, it’s already January 5th. But I’m pretending that it’s January 1st, because the actual New Year’s Day came and went in a bit of a blur.
Between making a quick out-of-town trip after Christmas, various gatherings with family and friends that spanned both Christmas & New Year’s, and a [...]
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1. It would appear that I’ve fallen off the face of the bloggy earth.
2. No matter how much I decide to simplify the holidays, things never actually work out that way. Simple, I mean. They’re always busier, crazier, and more hectic than I had originally planned.
3. It’s okay to ignore the blog — and, in fact, ignore [...]
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The picture above contains the simple ingredients for one of our family’s traditions. We call them “Thankfulness Leaves,” mostly because I’m not very creative when it comes to titling things.
Here’s how our tradition works:
Every evening, for the five days leading up to Thanksgiving, each of us will pick a leaf and write on it one [...]
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I am officially two days behind in posting the results of my Mega Memory Month memorization attempt. I knew the end of the month was coming. I even knew that it came and went. But I completely forgot about writing a post to reveal how I did (well, technically, how “we” did, since my [...]
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Lessons I hope we teach our kids, in light of the current economic situation:
1. Money is not security. When all your hopes, all your dreams, all your feelings of safety and security are tied up in the size of your bank account or your 401(k) or your mutual fund holdings…you’re on very shaky ground.
2. Good [...]
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Every time the vacuum comes out, L. (2) rushes over to help me. He’ll drop his Legos, Trains, or Little People Noah’s Ark and instantly be at my side to participate in this very exciting venture of sucking up cat hair, paper scraps and crumbs. One little hand reaches up to grasp the vacuum [...]
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