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I sighed. I was going to have to crawl under L.’s bed.
Though L. is 3.5, I still use a “baby” monitor in his room. Between the white noise machine (yes, I’m a believer in white noise machines), closed doors, and the distance between our bedrooms, I can’t hear a thing from L.’s room at night. [...]
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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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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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At age 3 1/2, L says things daily that make me pause, smile, or laugh out loud. Here are three cute ones from today.
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a casual girl. Jeans and fleecy shirts are my staples this time of year. But for church today, I dressed up a little. For me, that meant [...]
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It was just a normal Sunday morning. Well, mostly normal. Chad had to teach Sunday school during the first service and I had to be on hand to help run the technical equipment second service, so we needed to get out the door a little early…to get everything set up.
No problem. The kids get up [...]
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Time for Susanne’s weekly meme, Friday’s Fave Five, a chance to reflect and pick five things from this past week that make us happy.
1. Big Mama’s soup. I had a friend over for lunch this week and in my search for just the right new recipe to experiment on my friend with try, I came [...]
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It’s the third Tuesday of the month, which means 5 Minutes for Books is hosting their monthly Kids’ Picks carnival.
This month, I thought I’d share about a series of Bible study books that work well for tweens.
Over the summer, one thing C. (11) and I wanted to do was to find a Bible study for [...]
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I mentioned a few weeks ago that C. had won his class spelling bee. So last Monday, he and I traveled several hours, along with other winners from his school, to the district bee for his school’s association. It was a long day, but one full of excitement for us.
First up were the individual grade [...]
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