Wife, mom, writer, Christ-follower, reader, knitter, baker… writing about life in general and everything that goes along with it.
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March Madness is upon us. Of course, you already know this if you keep up with college basketball. I don’t. But what tips me off is that yesterday, I received my annual invitation to participate in an online “Tournament Challenge” arranged by a friend of ours. I look forward to this challenge every year because [...]
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Dear mother who dragged your child, screaming and kicking, out of Target,
I heard your little boy yelling, “But I WANTED that!” at the top of his lungs. And I heard you calmly tell him, “No” as you wrestled him into the car. I just wanted to say, Good Job. Whether you said no for financial [...]
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L. is 2 1/2. Which means that I’m starting to get questions along the lines of, “Is he potty-trained?”
Um…well…no. We haven’t even started.
But unfortunately the truth is, L. is starting to show signs of “readiness.” For example, last week he approached me, giggled, and then informed me that he was going to go into the [...]
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[Editor's note: This post was started last Tuesday, but I'm just now getting it posted.]
I woke up sore this morning. Sore in expected and unexpected places.
Sore legs — yep, that was to be expected. Sore obliques — a nice feeling, but I didn’t realize they’d feel quite this sore. And a shooting soreness down my right forearm. Hm… that [...]
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We celebrated C.’s 10th birthday with a big party at our house over the weekend. Lots of fun (along with lots of pizza, lots of cake, and lots of ice cream) was had by all. Even 2-year-old L. was at his best — greeting our guests, running around the yard with cousins, stealing sharing ice cream [...]
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After hearing sniffles and sneezes and snoring and coughs, after seeing watery eyes and dismal expressions, after a few nights of Chad and L. not sleeping well last week… I knew I needed to head to the store to re-stock our medicine cabinet. But attempting to purchase the required medication, when your house is [...]
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I’m going to tell you a secret.
I talk to myself. Regularly.
And I don’t just mean I say “ouch” if I stub my toe. No, I mutter and mumble to myself on a semi-consistent basis. I’ve been known to rehearse conversations that I’m dreading or nervous about while driving. I exclaim over [...]
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Note: What follows is a long and boring account of a run-in I had this week with an unpleasant occurrence in our basement. Some parts may be gross. Many parts are long-winded. So if you manage to stick with me, thank you. You are a truly dedicated blog-reader.
So, on Tuesday [...]
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Let me preface this post by saying that I am married to a truly great guy. Over the 14+ years that we’ve been married, he’s learned that occasionally, I cry for absolutely no reason, and that when I share my deepest feelings with him, I might just need a listening ear, not a solution. [...]
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Formula #1:
(Cl x 1) + (Co x 1) = E x 2
Translation: Clean and Cook Once –> Entertain Twice
We had a busy weekend, rather social for a bunch of homebodies. And when I say “a bunch of homebodies,” I mean two parents who are introverted homebodies and two kids who wonder why we never [...]
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