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From the category archives:
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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C. and I are really enjoying our read through The Mysterious Benedict Society, a book about four children engaged in secret mission to fight evil. I get a particular kick out of one of the characters: S.Q. Pedalian. S.Q. is not a major character but he pops up here and there and has a [...]
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“You know, I’m getting really tired of being ‘Other.’”
This declaration came out of nowhere from my 9-year-old the other day while we were running errands.
Before responding, my mind raced in circles, trying to figure out what he could possibly mean.
Did he feel like he wasn’t fitting in somewhere? In the family? At school? At church?
Was [...]
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I’m a bit of a freak about our home’s thermostat. It seems I’m constantly adjusting the temperature. We have one of those nifty programmable ones, and I do have my “winter” and “summer” programs set for optimal home enjoyment (balanced with optimal budget enjoyment, of course). But I still can’t leave those [...]
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A few months ago, C. (9) asked us when we were going to tell L. (then 1) about God. “When will we teach him all about the Bible, and when will we talk to him about asking Jesus into his heart?”
I loved that C. was concerned about L.’s spiritual well-being. It was so [...]
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It’s funny how I can read a verse, chapter, or book of the Bible, and discover things that I never noticed before. Recently, Ecclesiastes 7:9 jumped out at me:
Do not be eager in your heart to be angry, For anger resides in the bosom of fools.
That [...]
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I may have mentioned before on this blog that I do not have a green thumb. It’s probably been a while since I mentioned that, though, because I generally do not talk about plants at all. For one thing, I don’t know the names of most of the plants around our house. [...]
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I am good at worrying. Really good. In fact, I’m such a good worrier that I can be very worried, and not even know what it is that I’m worried about.
See? That’s talent.
And that’s how I woke up this morning. My stomach was in knots, and I had that anxious, jumpy feeling. [...]
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When I kissed L. (age: 1) on the head tonight and put him in his crib, he had a big purplish lump on the side of his little noggin.
Again.
Honestly, this kid bangs into things enough times in one week to make me jumpy. Every time I hear a “thump” coming from the other room, [...]
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