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tour guide
My daughter has developed a new practice the last couple months that has been baffling me.She literally asks me dozens of questions a day about the most routine things. Not the kind of questions she...
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Teeny Update
{home}...just to say posting will be light, until it's not. : ) I post regularly on dailymile and I am on instagram (an iPhone app) with a lot of homeschooling and daily life photos. (And I am still...
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summer 2011
{new red shoes }I have recently: - had three lumps found in my breast; had two mammograms and an ultrasound and found out they were benign (after finding my tears about it all in a dressing room...
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moments of ripened beauty
Seven years ago when we moved into our home we are in now, we had to let go of a house our daughter liked much better. The reason why? It had a swing in the yard. And the house we ended up purchasing...
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surprise
Every year I forget that the big transition back to school means a new normal will once again have to be created at our house. This year we had extra transition that only added to - and sped up - that...
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a timeline of true love
Bear with me while I tell you a story - it's the last story I expected to think about this week, but this is what happened:Monday a week ago: I had a very difficult, but significant day. A lot of tears...
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an evening before the rains hit
~ for an autumn bouquet ~I am thankful:~ for a quilt-picnic in a beautiful old park with apricot jam, rosemary bread, blood-orange soda; and basil and tomatoes from our yard - just the two of us~ for...
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when all else has failed
It may be partly that I just finished my 38th year.I try to think of him sitting there waiting for thirty-eight years and getting more and more disheartened. I imagine disappointment sinking in deeper...
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A Simple Update
I had to have surgery. As my friend says: I had my baby box removed. Along with a few other unnecessary things like scar tissue and cysts and such. And I am thankful it's over. *It's been a week and a...
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A Healing Season
O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, our shelter from the stormy blast, and our eternal home.Under the shadow of thy throne, still may we dwell secure; sufficient is thine arm...
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Only Begun
The morning before my recent surgery my mom sent me this poem (below.) That surgery was the first time I spent any (planned) length of time in the hospital since my son's birth so it stirred up some...
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Thirty Things I Am Loving Right Now
big thick caramel applespretty paint-dipped-looking gourdsall the bright, wet, yellow leaves on really tall treesflaming red bushesminiature cute pumpkinsstar wars movie nightshot apple ciderhoney...
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Six Weeks
I just found out today that I have six more weeks of laying really low to go.Or in my least favourite, most ambiguous way of them saying it to me: I'm supposed to take it very easy.But I did get some...
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First Week of November
"The unthankful heart...discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and,as the magnet finds the iron,so it will find, in every hour,some heavenly blessings." ~ Henry Ward...
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Options
At almost 40 years old I’ve been learning a big lesson: Say no to what doesn’t feel right (even if you can’t explain why yet) and fight for what does (even when it scares you to death.)It's freedom....
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The Ache of Wait
My friend Shelly wrote an amazing blog post recently and made the statement:"Waiting is a verb. God wants us to be active in our waiting, not passive."It struck a deep chord in me.We, like many others,...
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A New Way of Living Life
I always forget - every year - that advent wrecks me. When the kids were little I would sit and stare at the candlelight year after year, with no words left at the end of my days except: I am so, so...
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Anticipating
an·tic·i·pate [an-tis-uh-peyt]1. to realize beforehand; foretaste or foresee: to anticipate pleasure.2. to expect; look forward to; be sure of: to anticipate a favorable decision.3. to perform (an...
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A Canvas And A Love Letter
I am reading a book I have waited for for many years. It's the book I'd like to write, actually, and I may still someday. But for now I am reading another person's take on it, and, to put it mildly, I...
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Forty Things
I have been working for weeks on a New Year's post about the resolutions I have been making - the same ones for the past 3 - 4 years. It has been a pretty raw and current process and I'm sitting with...
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