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gracious frosted light
Yesterday wasn’t the greatest day ever. I spent much of the day angry and bitter. One thing after another sent me closer and closer to completely losing it. By the time we picked Noah up from work, I...
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just (don’t) add water
This boy. He decided it was a good idea to spill water on our one and only computer. The laptop that he and his buddy had already smashed the screen of a couple months ago. So, for the next two weeks...
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six
Dear Liliana, Today you turn six years old. You’ve been excited about your sixth birthday since April 25 of last year. You love your birthday more than anyone I know and you don’t have low...
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Grace in Small Things: Sunday Edition #4
1. An afternoon spent with some rad ladies, with our own personal barista 2. Tiny green things that are growing 3. Celebrating six years of Liliana 4. An evening of Anberlin with Noah 5. Temperatures...
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never forget there’s life after death and taxes
Every year that I can remember, I’ve filed my taxes the first week of March. Because why wouldn’t you want a fat refund as soon as possible? This year, though, well, this year is the first year that I...
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when time and confusion collide
My kids have been watching far too much TV lately. My can-now-unlock-my-iPhone two-year-old has been playing far too much “AMMO!” (animals) and watching far too many episodes of “PETS!” (Wonder Pets)...
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for Ronan
Preston has a couple special little friends in his life, and one of them is Ronan. Shortly after Ronan was born in December 2011, he was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis. What is CF? Cystic fibrosis...
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I see green
I planted things and they are growing. This, in and of itself, is a miracle. Watching things grow? Best therapy ever. I really have no idea what I’m doing, but last fall I kept the seeds from our one...
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highlight of my week
In 2012, I had the opportunity to hang out with some women who were trying to clean their lives up. Most were prostitutes, all were addicts. Most were moms who desperately wanted to get their kids...
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what I want for mother’s day
I’ve been dreading Mother’s Day for a while. (Or is it Mothers Day?)(Or Mothers’ Day?)(The day belonging to the mother? Or the mothers? Or is it the day of mothers?)(The grammar of it is certainly not...
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cover and garlic
So, I didn’t kill those cucumber seedlings. One of them had kind of a bent stem, but I piled soil around it and it seems to be doing ok. I was nervous about them! But, they totally proved me wrong and...
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reawakening the dead
I have a gift. My gift? Letting my phone die ALL THE TIME. Pretty much every time Noah and I go out, I realize, after leaving the house, that my phone is almost dead. Every time. Anberlin show two...
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on freedom and security
When I was a kid, I had a lot of freedom in my neighbourhood. I had quite a few friends who lived close by, and we’d play street hockey or Kick the Can, or build tree forts or snow forts, or we’d climb...
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Have you tried that crazy wrap thing?
If you know me well, you know that I usually have 3-4 jobs on the go at any one time. What can I say, I get bored easily. (Or something like that.)(I actually don’t remember what “bored” feels like.)...
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late to the game, as usual
it‘s better to feel pain than nothing at all the opposite of love‘s indifference Holiday Mondays are pretty much my most-favourite things ever. Weekends are always crazy, and weekdays are always...
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annual family photos
Every year on Mother’s Day weekend, Noah takes photos of me and the kids. This has more to do with me getting in front of the camera for once than anything to do with the specific day we take it on, we...
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sharing
A friend of mine and her teeny tiny foster baby were over yesterday, and Preston is just in love with Little Miss. He was watching “Pirates” (Jake and the Neverland Pirates) on my phone to keep him...
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Grace in Small Things: Sunday Edition #5
1. Things that grow. 2. Getting the garden 80% planted before the rain fell. Related: Having the rain fall just after planting. 3. Watching as my little goobers grow (way too fast). 4. The moments...
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one of those days
I stayed up a little too late last night trying to finish my book (Attachments)(love it)(reading for the second time)(you need to read it), and it was only just after 11pm when I fell asleep, it...
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What does your dream home look like?
So, yea, Tuesday ended much better than it started. And after all that, all I had to do was laugh when, on Wednesday, the boys and I headed to Walmart to finish the groceries (it takes about 5...
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