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wake me up when september ends
Summer is over. School has started. Fall is here. I’m so not ready. I’m never ready. I’m behind in all the internet things and all the life things and all the work things and maybe I should just come...
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Need a house broken in to? I’m your girl.
I am notoriously locking myself out of things. My car, my house, my car running with a baby inside. I’m an expert. I walked out of the house yesterday with Preston in one arm, and my phone and my...
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woah is me or woe is me
Kaylie has been begging AND BEGGING to bike to school since the spring. The day we finally decided to let her bike, she discovered that her bike had been stolen. There was no way we could afford to buy...
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Grace in Small Things: Sunday Edition #45
1. The four-hour nap Noah let me have this morning/afternoon. 2. Balmy temperatures. It was above -30°C/-22°F today! 3. My yellow sun-shiny walls. They’ve definitely made my living room happier. 4. The...
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Why do you keep blowing up your blog, Mrs. Wilson?
No, YOU keep blowing up your website. I have a bad habit. Every time I feel way too insecure or exposed, or every time I have a semi-complete nervous breakdown, I blow up my blog. I have no idea how...
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speculaas cookies
The Christmas season started as it usually does in our house: at 12am on December 1st. I think this might be the last year we do this tradition, though. Now that the kids are older, maybe we’ll do it...
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on finding joy
I have a love/hate relationship with Mondays. On one hand, everyone goes back to school/work and I get to have a quiet day with Preston and it’s one of the only days we have a free evening, but on the...
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on DD and LGBT and NPH
I can’t stay silent any more. The internet has been exploding the last couple days with the firing of some guy from Duck Dynasty after his GQ interview, and many of my Christian friends are saying...
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7 Days :: The Final Chapter :: 1
This run of 7 Days is the very last one. I’m sad to see it end, but I’m thankful to Sarah for hosting these seven years, these 28 runs. I spent most of the day in the girls’ room cleaning and purging....
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7 Days :: The Final Chapter :: 2
I’m finally getting around to wrapping the kids’ gifts from us and my parents. I spent a night last week building them and/or cutting all the annoying strings that hold them to their packaging. I...
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7 Days :: The Final Chapter :: 3 :: please give me a sec to catch my breath
We did our Christmas Eve tonight since I’m out most of the evening tomorrow doing tech work at the church. The kids got new pajamas and Monsters University, which we all watched together. It was also...
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7 Days :: The Final Chapter :: 4
I spent half of today making appies for our post-Christmas-Eve-service get-together. These peppers were for bacon-wrapped jalapeño poppers because I couldn’t find jalapeños. The last time I worked...
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7 Days :: The Final Chapter :: 5 :: Merry Christmas!
From us to you. I hope your day was merry and bright. © Jen Wilson 2013. All rights reserved. | Originally published for jenwilson.ca as 7 Days :: The Final Chapter :: 5 :: Merry Christmas!.
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7 Days :: The Final Chapter :: 6
One of my favourite things about Christmas is friends come to town. I hung out with one such friend today and introduced her to both dottery (Bethany‘s dotty pottery phenomenon) and Harry Potter. She...
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7 Days :: The Final Chapter :: 7
I woke up this morning with a super-stiff neck. The night was awful, with one feverish child who slept beside me so I could keep an eye on him and make sure he kept breathing, and one child who woke...
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Grace in Small Things: Sunday Edition #46
1. Pineapple. Especially pineapple on pizza. 2. Drugs. Especially drugs that make sick kids sleep. 3. Spending time with out-of-town friends. 4. My birthday present that finally came six months after I...
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a sock on the doorknob
Preston is basically Houdini Jr. Nothing keeps him in his room. He learned to open doorknobs long ago. We tried a child-proof doorknob thing, he took the whole thing off. I duct-taped the child-proof...
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the first day of the year
I had a new year’s post planned for today but right now I’m just glad that everyone in this house is present and alive and mostly healthy. It’s simple, but so easy to forget to be grateful for. © Jen...
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the cold never bothered me anyway
I had grand plans for these two weeks the girls had off school. We were going to pottery paint and swim and see a movie and play games and do all sorts of togethery things. Turns out the only thing we...
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The Bachelor: Episode 1 Recap
Juan Pablo. Hwon Pahblow. He had barely any screen time on Desiree’s season of The Bachelorette and didn’t even get a one-on-one date, yet he was apparently the most popular of the suitors. Most...
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