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And Be Thankful...90
Listening to Chief practice his piano piece (along with a handful of other tunes) in preparation for tomorrow's service. Is there anything better than listening to your children learning to play an...
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I've Been Waiting for this for Years: 90+1 = 91
Throughout my children's time in public school, I always knew there was something missing. It wasn't something that I couldn't define. I knew exactly what it was. It was the reason I loved teaching in...
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Today...A delicious meal waiting for us in the freezer.The bag stuffed full of jackets and jeans.The card with the handwritten note about God shining his light through my husband.An addition to the...
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Mythbustin', Bullet Dodgin', and Fuzzy at 70
This week at Grandma and Grandpa's house was a field trip week for us. Actually, our week consisted of two days of field trips, a day of recovery from said trips (and a visit to a local insta-care...
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Passport to Paris
Day 2's activity began at the Denver Art Museum. It was in a word, FABULOUS! I know what you're thinking, art museums aren't for everyone, but trust me, if you have the opportunity, visit this one,...
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Seriously, This May Keep Me Up at Night
I think I am disproportionately excited about the project I completed today...considering I am an adult and all.But, I'm sooo excited!My middle daughter has been stealing my headbands. I don't mind. I...
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Another Favorite
Before I was distracted by the whole, conquering the world by making headbands thing, I had every intention of telling you about another favorite field trip from our time in Colorado. Well, the...
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Merry Christmas!
It didn't happen during the week of all things cookie.Not when we picked out our tree.Or when the wrapped gifts started to collect under the tree.Not when the carols were first sung, or the snow fell,...
View ArticleCompletely Random and One Piece of Advice
Mornings are absolutely exhausting. I didn't understand this at all until Seth reminded me that, number one, I'm not sleeping so well, and number two, when I am sleeping-ish, Wonderfully Made is doing...
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God Bless the Husbands of Pregnant Women
Really.The tender ones who watch helplessly as we sob our way through nightly devotions...for no reason in particular, but a hundred different ones we can't put into words.Who, when our outside...
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*In my search for a devotion to share with my LWML ladies last night, I ran onto this one I posted a couple years ago at Growing HIS Kids. I thought I might share it with you today, too.And the Word...
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And Then There's This
The smell of Dreft is in the air...and I'm packing. It's a completely different type of packing than I was doing around this time last year. I am absolutely grateful for the hidden and unexpected...
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Being Showered Upon
The tables were decorated with pictures from our trip to Haiti and notes from the blog posts I wrote after returning from our trip. That in and of itself threatened to be the end of me. Then there was...
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Baby Guesses
Yes, it's that time again.Wonderfully Made and I are in our 37th week, so it's time to officially declare your guesses as to the gender, height, weight, due date, etc. of the baby.You can join in the...
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Our Birth Story
She had been a mover and a shaker, especially at night. As soon as I would lie down for the evening, my belly would begin to do the wave, almost always for a good thirty to forty minutes. Last...
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9 Years to the Day
April 27th was the date, nine years ago, when we first heard these words, "Immanuel Lutheran Church, Canton, Kansas."It's April 27th yet again, and today we will say goodbye to this church that has...
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Part 1 of 6: It's Installation Day! Take Cover
"I will, the Lord helping me through the power and grace of His Holy Spirit."That's about when the sirens went off.Honestly, I was not at all surprised. Life has been nothing short of crazy and...
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Part 2 of 6: The Perfect Good-Pie
We got to celebrate my oldest middle daughter's 8th birthday at the end of April. It was a day I had been dreading because I knew it would be the last birthday (for awhile at least) that we would...
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Part 3 of 6: Built on the Rock
I remember the exact place I was sitting in my oldest daughter's first grade classroom when I said words like these, "I could never home school my children." I had evidence to prove it. I could have...
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3 Months
This little one is three months old today.She is smiling and cooing and chewing on her hands and drooling and growing like crazy.And because of life being what it has been lately, I feel a little like...
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