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A Tale of Two Plans
In this world there are two types of people: the planners and the poppers. Some people thrive on having every second of an event (or a day) scheduled and accounted for. They love checking things off of lists, and a perfect day is one in which every item on that list...
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Maybe It’s Time For The Next Best Thing
"God will protect you with his pinions; you’ll find refuge under his wings. His faithfulness is a protective shield." Psalm 91:4 The way God created everything is astounding. Each creature is fascinating and...
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The Stupid Water Bottle
This. This water bottle. This bulky water bottle that my kid has been caring around with him to school, to sports, to work…for long as I can remember. I hate finding it all muddy sitting in the sink with the assumption that I’m going to clean it (which I do of course...
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5 Ingredient Awesome Dinner
Looking for something awesomely easy and really good to add to your fall and winter meal plan? I got your recipe right here. I found the original recipe on this great site called: eatathomecooks.com Of course I did some adapting and tweaking (certainly not to be...
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
The Horrible Loss of a Pet
I just feel…raw. All the blog books say not to share personal things in your life because no one wants to hear. I think that’s stupid. How do you connect if you don’t share struggles and get personal. My dog got out today. You can read how we got her here. I put...
read moreDo It Yourself Wood Sign Calligraphy Inspirational Quote
Ahh…. the New Year! Christmas is my favorite time of the year, but when it's done - it's done. Maybe some of you have some resolutions for your home. I have a project for you that's perfect to kick off the new year. My friend, Amy Brake, came home with the most...
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#One Word: What’s Yours?
New Year's Resolutions are so UGH. Mine are always broken or forgotten or just plain unrealistic and tossed before January is halfway through. But I do like having goals, and vision, and something to work toward. Something that guides my actions around family, my...
read moreFinally, an app that makes me a better friend
My sister-in-law is the very best card-sender and holiday rememberer. Even though she works full time and is a busy mom and wife and volunteer, she sends her nieces and nephews cards for everything - birthdays, Easter, Valentine's, Halloween, kindergarten...
read more“Dear Dad”: How Camp Letters Haven’t Changed Since 1931
You know how everything kids do "these days" is nothing like what "we used to do"? It's true in a million ways, except one: letters from camp! My mom was going through old family papers last week and hit the jackpot with letters that her mother (my grandmother...
read moreShe Believed She Could: Help Girls ‘Dream with All Their Hearts’
There are sooo many wonderful groups making life better for people in our area. But there’s one that you may not have heard about yet – and it's making a big difference in the lives of girls in Neosho. Over the past year I've gotten to know one of our local news...
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Give Him to Me
A lifetime ago…or maybe just a childhood ago….I stood over an isolate in the NICU staring at a wrinkly smushed little creature with a purplish bruised head. He was hooked up to wires and tubes as the machines around him hummed and beeped and I put my carefully washed...
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A Promise
About seven years ago I made a promise to myself. Every year, on the anniversary of the Joplin tornado, I would read THIS POST I had written about what my family had experienced that Sunday afternoon. I would read it and remember. I would remember what God did for us....
read moreA Wrestling Match
You know how sometimes God puts a book in your hands that PERFECTLY speaks to you and the place you're living in at that exact moment? Yeah. That. I've been reading this book called Daring to Hope by Katie Davis Majors that's doing just that for me. In it, the author...
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