family things
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Hello September.
Around my house we’re getting used to the onset of the new school year. For as long as I have remembered, it has meant coordinating school supply, clothing and activity purchases and making sure everyone had what they needed. This week it means keeping everyone calm, exercising, eating as healthy as we can, and integrating Read more
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Dear Dad,
Thank you for your kindness, your patience, your encouragement, your wisdom, your love, your faith, your support and your discipline. I know there were a lot of times when I did not appreciate any of these things, but I stand here today, in full awareness that I would not be the woman that I am Read more
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Day Two – Forward Motion.
I am in a season of my life (and by extension, my family’s lives) where a lot of doors are starting to open. For the past few years there has been work, prayer, more work and even more work and tears of frustration and wondering if things would ever change. The simplest opportunities required planning Read more
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Tiptoeing through the tulips.
This week, the kids were out for Spring Break and we had beautiful, warm, sunny weather for three days straight. This, of course, meant that we had to take advantage. We visited a tulip farm and the colors of the blooms defied description. Every year photographers try to capture it, and their work is breathtaking, but Read more
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