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Spring Cleaning Is In The Air! 40 bags in 40 days Decluttering CHALLENGE
This is so fun (after you get started)! You are going to tell me thank you and thank you again. You are welcome. This is something that can change the way you live. It is empowering and an incredible act of kindness toward yourself and your family. I found a blog...
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Giving Grace Even When You Are Really Mad
Is it crazy how you can start off the day ready to tackle the world, and then BAM, it goes to pot. I had the most wonderful prayer time and enjoyed studying God's word today, but you wouldn't know it. You wouldn't know it at all. We got two kittens because one isn't...
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Final Countdown
We've filled our days, focused on making memories, tried tons of new things, repeated traditions, eaten dozens of family meals, had movie nights, traveled lots of places, taken hundreds of pictures, enjoyed friends, cherished family, holed up in our rooms when we were...
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It’s PUMPKIN TIME!!!
Fall. I love it It's a favorite season for a lot of us, I know. But seriously....the only thing that gets me through summer is knowing that it will end in fall. Yes, I love boots and sweaters and mums and changing leaves. I adore crisp apples and crisper nights. My...
read more“We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.”
-Mother Teresa
Begin The Year With The Daniel Fast
I want to begin with this because it means so much to me. For most of my life I dealt with a ridiculous amount of anxiety. I can remember as a small child, I worried about everything. I didn't grow out of it. Even after I was married and had small kids, every...
read moreThe Best App To Keep You Organized For Christmas!
Oh, are you ever going to thank me for this one! There is an app for everything! Because I only have 20 more shopping days until Christmas (pull yourself together), I need all of the help I can get. One of our special readers, Kathy Johnson, shared it with me. It...
read moreThankful For Hopes Turned Into Answered Prayer
Happy Almost Thanksgiving!! My wise mom had her quiet time the other morning, and the devotion for the day encouraged the reader to write down all of her hopes of the past and the hopes for her future. She started writing down every time she had hoped for something in...
read more“…Now Turn to the Person on Your Left”
How much time do you take to get to know people around you? To really hear their stories, encourage them, be a friend, be a neighbor? You may be better at it than I've been lately! I'll admit, I get caught up in my own busy-ness and don't take as much time as I...
read moreI’m a Dance Mom, and Ready to Admit It
(Photo: Annie as a new ballerina, 2006) I spent the weekend at a dance competition. Yes, I'm sort of a dance mom. (Maybe not in the fake-eyelashes-hyper-competitive-brawling-with-other-dance-moms way, but we did recently acquire the costume travel duffel bag with...
read more‘Walking the Walk’ in Friendship
If the first rule of real estate is location, location, location, then the first rule of relationships is communication, communication, communication. But then - there's middle school. My 13-year-old daughter came home with a sad tale of a disagreement with a friend....
read morePedal Therapy
I may be in the (gulp) fifth decade of my life...but I'm still learning some stuff. For instance--even though I seem to be an entirely different person from whom I was 35 years ago....I still have SOME of the same tastes. Perfect example: creme horns. They are still...
read moreOne Should Hope So
Hope. It is the best of feelings, It is the worst of feelings. (And yes, I think 'ol Charles Dickens would totally agree.) Hope can be the only light to get you through an incredibly dark situation. It can be the one thing that keeps you hanging onto a lifeline in...
read moreWe’ll Take a Cup of Kindness Yet…
Just a few more days. Just a few more days and the year we waited for with such feverish anticipation at this time last year...will be over. Soon we will say good-bye to our 365-day-chance of new beginning, second chances and fresh starts and replace it with hopes of...
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