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2019… thoughts on time
Sunday night at church I was just stirred by the thought of time as I heard people processing 2018 and anticipating 2019. Generally I love planning and strategizing. I am often trying to find ways to make our life and our family run better. But I just felt a breeze of caution blow through the […]
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margin.
I was recently listening to a podcast about marriage and relationships and a phrase they mentioned stuck with me. They said, “a lot of young couples are living without a lot of margin in their lives.” Their point was that the lack of margin eventually causes anxiety and can break down the relationship. Yikes, that […]
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Stupid Chapstick (when Mother’s Day stings…)
Originally posted on mrs anna maher:
“She is NOT a mom” the lady behind me LOUDLY whispered. It was Mother’s Day and the “gift” was chapstick. The year before it was a pen. Let’s be honest, a pen is not the gift that every woman longs for. But chapstick, I mean most of us could… -
The Story
This morning I laid the girls down and slipped out the front door in my sweatpants. Chuck was about to get ready for work so I decided to capitalize on him still being home and sneak in a little alone time. This morning Chuck said, “I have an Autumn hangover.” I think she’s breaking in […]
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A Place to Rest
How are you today? Or, do you even have time to ask yourself? I can often fall into that trap. Sometimes the day to day fills up the time with vacuum like speed and there’s little time to check in with my soul. I feel we are for the most part past the crazy days […]
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Wait, is cleanliness next to godliness?
I wouldn’t say the new year has had the best start for me. For the first 8 days, I was fighting a sinus infection. We came home from Christmas with colds, the girls and Chuck shook them off pretty quick, but my sinus infection was a bit more stubborn. This led to a lot of […]
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Finding connection in a LOUD and lonely place…
Loud doesn’t equal connection. I just googled the loneliest city in America, because I recall hearing it was New York and discovered that you can rent a cuddle in Tokyo. What?! I’ll admit my source was google, but has our modern world really come to this desperate place? Renting a cuddle people, how sad is […]
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What I am learning from living in a 1940’s home…
We recently moved from our 2nd floor apartment to a 1940’s bungalow. I imagine it was built in the post-war era when the world was putting itself back together and trying to find normal again. Sometimes I sit on the porch sipping sweet tea and try to imagine what it was like back then. I […]
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shameless parenting…
I woke up startled and looked over at my newborn baby sleeping in her rock n play. She wasn’t making a sound, but I said “she’s cold” to my husband. I took her temp and sure enough it was 96.1. Poor babe, she didn’t have enough fat on her itty bitty body to regulate her […]
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Stupid Chapstick (when Mother’s Day stings…)
“She is NOT a mom” the lady behind me LOUDLY whispered. It was Mother’s Day and the “gift” was chapstick. The year before it was a pen. Let’s be honest, a pen is not the gift that every woman longs for. But chapstick, I mean most of us could use another chapstick rolling around the […]