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My husband and I love date nights at Chili’s. We like an assortment of items on the menu, and it’s hard to beat the $20 Dinner for Two. Right now they’re giving away 1,000,000 of their new flatbreads to spread the word. Enjoy it as an appetizer or eat it as a meal—I’ve seen one in person and it’s big!

To claim your free flatbread, click the button at the top of this post and sign up for Chili’s email club. Even if you’re already a member, you can still claim your free flatbread. We’re in the email club and use the coupons often. Last Sunday at lunch we paid for two adult meals and got four kids’ meals free. Sometimes we use the free appetizer coupon and I get get the Southwest Egg Rolls as a meal.

You have until next Thursday, June 20, to sign up, but you can choose whether you want to use your coupon this week or next. You can print or have the coupon emailed to you. It includes your name, your preferred Chili’s location, and the week you plan to use the coupon. They probably let the stores know so they can stock the restaurant accordingly.

Claim your free flatbread now!

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For the Mothers

by Dawn Camp on June 13, 2013

in music

Two years ago at Allume I heard Christa Wells sing. I love her sweet voice and thoughtful lyrics, the way she tells a story with words and music. Recently I read the words to the song Oh, Your Love, which she wrote last year for her mother at Mother’s Day. Just reading them made me cry, so I didn’t have the nerve to play the video.

A girl can only handle so much.

After reading the words a second time I finally clicked play and listened to the song. It’s just lovely and will probably draw tears every time I hear it. Of course I wanted it, because I’m a sucker for music that makes me cry.

Well guess what? You can download Oh, Your Love and four other Christa Wells songs for FREE at Noisetrade. Since I didn’t pay for those songs, I bought More Than Rubies (affiliate link), the new album from Christa Wells & Nicole Witt instead.

Click play and listen to this song while reading the words below (email subscribers click here to play). I dare you not to cry. You can let me know how you did in the comments.

Oh, Your Love

I know that you knew

You raised us to leave you

Raised us to run with a torch in our hands

I know that you knew

What your love would do

Sent us out sailors with the wind at our backs

 

I know that you gave

Without keeping record

Except to be certain you had nothing left

I know that you gave

Til it hurt though you never

Admitted anything but the joy and gladness

 

Ooh, your love always carried us

 

I know that you followed us

Late in the darkness

Pulled up the blankets, covered us in prayer

I know that you followed

Our paths to independence

With a great deal of patience and a little bit of fear

 

But ooh, your love always carried us

 

I know that you see us

The way we were back then

You can’t let go, you can’t really let us go

But I hope that you see how

You took those little children

To the light that leads us all to our true home

 

And ooh, your love always carries us

Oooh, your love will always carry us

 

I know that you knew what your love would do

Oh, Your Love

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June's desktop calendar

I‘ve wasted a lot of time waiting on somedays: Someday I’ll make a workable cleaning schedule and then we’ll have company more often. Someday I’ll become a morning person and have quiet devotionals and get things accomplished before everyone else gets out of bed. Someday I’ll take a class on graphic design and create the things floating around in my head. Someday we’ll have more money and . . .

The list goes on.

Do you wait for somedays? What do yours look like?

Someday we’ll have a house that’s big enough for entertaining.

Someday I’ll have children and be a stay at home mom.

Someday the kids will be older and I won’t be so tired.

Someday the kids will be grown and I’ll do all those things I’ve waited to do.

Someday I’ll have a bigger blog and more opportunities will come from it.

Someday I’ll write a book and then I’ll consider myself a real writer.

Do you see yourself in any of these somedays?

Read the rest of the post at (in)courage and download June’s desktop calendar while you’re there!

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Super Semi-Annual Sale from Blessings Unlimited!

June 3, 2013

Blessings Unlimited’s Super Semi-Annual Sale runs through the end of June, with over 70 items discounted from 20-81%! I’m a Blessings consultant so this is an affiliate link to my personal store. Unfortunately, after the recent Blessings site redesign I can’t give you links to individual items that will take you to my shop, but [...]

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How I Spent My 7th Blog Anniversary

June 2, 2013

Yesterday I commemorated the 7th anniversary of this little ol’ blog by celebrating life in the best possible ways with some of my favorite people. To be perfectly honest, I’d forgotten the significance of the day until one of my son’s best friends wished me a happy blog anniversary as I jogged past him at [...]

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To My Graduate

May 30, 2013

My third son, fresh from his high school graduation ceremony, spent last week on a South Carolina beach with parent chaperones and other graduates from our Classical Conversations program. We parents secretly sent letters addressed to our seniors, to be read as their individual memory lanterns were lit and released one evening over the Atlantic. Words tumbled around [...]

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The Best is Yet to Come

May 28, 2013

Today would have been my mother’s birthday. She was in bad health for years, but always told me that she wouldn’t trade being where she was to be my age again. I guess wisdom and perspective trump youth. Age is a funny thing, especially when you don’t feel older. Sometimes I wonder if other people [...]

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Encouragement for the Military Wife

May 27, 2013

Yesterday our pastor honored the veterans in our congregation. Most of the men he mentioned are in their 60s and 70s, men that I’ve known for years but didn’t think of as military since that part of their lives was before I knew them. I found out that one of my favorite people in the [...]

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On Finding My Rhythm

May 23, 2013

I usually walk the hilly mile to the front of our subdivision alone and then jog back, but today four of the kids go with me. I head out the door with my phone but no earbuds, anticipating two miles of silly conversation. The kids who are on foot took off without me—they’re halfway up [...]

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