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Gifts We Can Give Our Kids: Consistency
Over the last couple of years, we have begun to think of certain parts of our parenting as gifts we are giving our children. Have you ever thought of discipline/correction as a gift? It really helps...
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Gifts We Can Give Our Kids: Organization
I don’t know how many times I have purged our toys, books and school supplies. The paper trail? It’s the bane of my existence. I am constantly struggling to overcome clutter, but also scheming about...
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Spring Bouquets and a Roach Motel. (Eww!)
The past weeks have been full of activity, from house guests, garden projects, culinary successes (pictured below) and culinary failures (also pictured below), baby steps and piggies tails, to the...
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Friday Fun
I promise this blog is not an ode to Sara Groves. But both her music and message have been life-giving to me at some pretty poignant times. Consequently, I own every album she’s made and have been...
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Didn’t You Get the Memo? (The Mama’s Version)
Funny things we say to our kids and rules to live by. Moms, ALWAYS rinse and repeat. ALWAYS. (It will buy you 3 more minutes of solitude in the shower.)
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Just Like That
I’m not sure how to describe a weekend like the one we just experienced. We finally unpacked The Green Ember. We held it in our hands, sniffed its crispy pages (yes, I’m a book-sniffer), then promptly...
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The ‘Adding Beauty’ Project: Week 49 (And, What’s Next?)
How can 2014 be nearly over? And can I just say how grateful I am for how so many of you, my lovely friends, have joined me in recognizing, appreciating, and creating beauty in our lives this year?...
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Getting Over Myself
Have you wondered what could have possibly changed so suddenly in my life that I am now more free to turn on the lights and dust the shelves and rearrange the furniture in this blog? I’ll tell you....
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Variations on “Breakfast”
Brek-thist Bwep-tist Bettist Bwek-fist Beddist Burptist Brep-thist How many ways have your kids found to pronouce this word? And what is your favorite go-to breakfast? Ours is pictured above. We call...
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Still Adding Beauty. Moving on to 2016!
Our family was blessed greatly in 2015. I can’t even believe how the book journey has unfolded. We still stare at each other in wide-eyed wonder from time to time, shaking our heads and shrugging our...
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