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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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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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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Names and Faces

Naming gifts is more fun when I give them faces, even if it’s just for me. Tonight though, I thought I’d post a few for you. This first one just delighted me so much. I was cleaning up the kid’s room and I had to move their kitchen when I heard something rattling around inside [...]

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I’m Too Mature For That

The past two days have been full of grace. I have not. It’s been a snowball of sinful attitudes and behaviors. You know what that’s like, when you start with one thing, and giving in to that one thing begins this process of seemingly breaking down all the good you’ve built up?  Then it’s as [...]

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Preceding the Miracle

I’ve been wracking my brain, re-reading the highlighted sections, which are turning out to be most of the book and there’s not a single excerpt I can give you without needing to give you five more, so you’re just going to have to go get it and read it yourself. (You can read the 1st [...]

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A First and Last

I am reading Ann Voskamp‘s book One Thousand Gifts. I can’t fairly start heralding the book’s greatness without finishing her journey (I’m three chapters from the end), but I feel quite confident this will be a book I share, lend out, have to pester the borrower to return, buy new copies of and gift to [...]

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Thank You

Phil 4: 4-6 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.   couple of days ago, as I [...]

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