Category: Thoughts
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Who Am I? :: Identity Crisis
Who am I? What is my purpose? Why am I here? What makes me unique? These are questions everyone faces – they are often first faced during the teen years, but can present themselves again at different times through our lives – especially during crises. As a pastor’s wife, I find it easy to use…
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overwhelmed
It’s Sunday evening, 8:52 PM. The kids are in bed and my husband is out for the moment. Quiet times like these are rare for this momma and I’m using this one to think over the day: Mother’s Day. My4th one if you count the one when I was first pregnant. Mother’s Day never ceases…
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Decorating Your Home: 2 Rules You Cannot Break
Ever seen one of those shows on TV where awesome design artists come into a house, discover what the homeowners want, and then transform the home in 24 hours? It’s cool, isn’t it? I love seeing the before & after pictures. I love watching the homeowners’ faces as they see their room transformed into something…
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Details :: 13/52
Details. Life is full of them. And yet they’re easy to miss. Especially when you have kids. My little girl has a new favorite game. It’s called “hide & seek.” She loves to play it with her Daddy, Mommy & BearBear. I’ve also heard her trying to play it with her 5 month old brother.…
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Lessons From My Daughter
Much of my free time this past week was consumed with studying for a Sunday school lesson for my teen girls. One day, my little girl decided she wasn’t tired during naptime. I told her she could bring her books out and sit next to me while I studied. She did pretty well, but…
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The Bible – Book 12
The final book I completed in 2011 was the Bible. The Bible is such a large book that contains so many stories – stories of new life, death, tragic decisions, beautiful surprising endings, intriguing plots, romantic heroes, despicable kings – and above all, the greatest love story of all time. This book tells about…
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Overflowing Oatmeal
You know it’s gonna be a rough day when… Yes, some days I feel like a get a lot accomplished. It’s 5pm, dinner is in the crockpot, both kids are happily somewhat happily waiting for their Daddy to get home, the house is relatively clean… And other days are more like, well, more like overflowing…
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Goals Schmoals :: Strategies for Making Awesome Goals
Well, 2012 is here. All 4 days of it. How are those new year’s resolutions going? I made several goals for myself – one of them I’ll share today. But first…how do you go about making goals? What is the best way? A while back I shared this graphic (via google images) from one of…
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“Don’t Let Go”
This past weekend, my hubby and I took our senior high teens on a rafting trip in West Virginia. It was definitely a great time! (Well, actually, the river manager didn’t want me to go rafting since I’m 34 weeks pregnant. But I had a great time with the teens before and after the rafting…
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Encouragement
Hello all! I am on vacation in Hilton Head (in case that wasn’t clear from all my freaking out facebook and twitter updates recently) ;), so this week’s posts will be much less normal than usual because I’m planning to spend most of my time with my family instead of on the computer blogging. See,…
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Workin’ With What I Got…
Do you remember looking at those picture books when you were little – the ones where it showed a stripe up close and you had to guess what it was, then on the next page there was a picture of a zebra? You don’t remember those? Hm…well, I loved those books. And just in case…
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Mother’s Day
Tomorrow, May 8, is Mother’s Day. There are many people who come to mind during this holiday: my dear Mom – the one who carried, birthed, nurtured, fed, trained, and still continues to love me. I love you, Mom. a friend – a mother at heart – but to this point has not been able…