Best. Day. Ever.

One of the greatest things about little kids is that after a day when you’ve all been sick and grumpy, a day you’ve made them do school anyway, a day you also made them clean their playroom and probably snapped at them more than once, you can simply offer to make cookies and they run [...]

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Settling Into Moments

We’re well into week four of our school year and starting to settle into a bit of a routine. The scariness of teaching two separate grades at the same time is wearing off, but the reality of trying to do so with a needy toddler underfoot is sinking in. As I reach the end of [...]

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Back To School

We’re halfway through our second week. It has been utter chaos. It’s honestly been pretty hard for me not to get overwhelmed. Eliot is running about the house at a mile a minute, climbing in and on everything and tearing apart anything that comes in, or can be torn into pieces. After he does all [...]

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Settling Back In

I’m sort of reeling right now. I had a lovely week of rest and relaxing, alone time and one on one with Ando. I’m kinda bummed that I didn’t take pictures, but do you really want to see pictures of me lounging around my hotel room? I think not. It was a week of EASY [...]

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Thoughts on Moments . . .

. . . when grace pours down, unexpected, unsolicited even and I am covered in His love. Feeding babies, dancing the hokey pokey, scrounging up a lunch, admonishing my children for the HUNDREDTH time to get their room clean, right in the middle of an ordinary day and Father says, “stop and feel my presence. [...]

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Gifts in Eliot Sized Packages

Yesterday was our church’s annual outdoor service. One day a year we get to all meet as a single body to worship together outside, as we don’t all fit inside during one service. There were 51 baptisms! Some of these were friends of mine or children of friends of mine. So much rejoicing. It was [...]

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Spring Fever . . .

. . . . is upon us in every way. Homeschooling is hard, blogging almost impossible, breathing even a challenge. I’ve got a couple of drafts that I’m working on, but I need courage to post them. I need guidance to write the words that would serve. Hopefully I’ll have something up soon. All in [...]

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Oh, Monday

I started the day tired, cranky, running behind, getting upset at the kids, not giving thanks for anything at all. Don’t you just love Mondays? This weekend I took an unintentional hiatus from my 1000 gifts journal and I can surely tell. I’m fighting against everything that really is inconvenient and perceiving everything else as [...]

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Not the Post I Planned On Writing

This morning I was crafting a beautiful, spiritual, probably moving post for you all, when Andy and I both locked into our own kingdom stuff and ended up bickering most of the morning. Bye bye post. Hello mess. Bye bye spiritual feeling. Hello selfishness. Thankfully, He is kind enough to remind me that feeling spiritual [...]

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Painting Gone Awry

So my friend Jo and I got our kids together today for a little outside action before the rain comes again. The idea was to set them up a nice table outside where they could all  (ages 2-6) calmly and quietly allow their inner artist to bud, creating some lovely little works of art to [...]

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