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My Quality Time Lovin’ 10-Year-Old Son

January 29, 2012

I‘ve studied Gary Chapman’s 5 Love Languages (separate link for children) enough to know that my 10-year-old son’s primary language is Quality Time. He wants to run errands with me—even boring ones. Last week he surprised me in such a sweet way. I’d said goodbye to the kids when I said goodnight, since I had [...]

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We Moms Need a Few Tricks up Our Sleeves

August 29, 2011

Thursday evening I glare at a plastic McDonald’s cup lid lying in our driveway—a lid that I’d left there for a couple of days, waiting for one of the kids to have an attack of conscience and pick it up—and an idea begins to brew. Minutes later I call the kids together at the dining [...]

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A Practically Perfect Mother’s Day

May 9, 2011

If you’ve been a mother for long, you’ve learned that some Mother’s Days are extra special and some aren’t much different than an average day. I’m happy to say that today was the former. My kids gave me the sweetest gifts: hand-painted pottery; a baseball signed “to the best mom ever;” handwritten love notes; a [...]

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Really, Don’t Fret the Sweat

April 21, 2011

Infants have their own delicious smells, with their sweet baby breath and fuzzy little heads. Even their bad odors are okay: they’re just so baby precious. It was always a shock to me the first time mine had “bad breath,” a sign that they were growing and changing. Next come those active young years, when [...]

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“Don’t Make Me Come Up There!” Review and Giveaway

April 4, 2011

[Contest is closed. Winners are Jen and Brigit.] Do you often feel like a failure in the motherhood department? Like there should be a big “L” stamped on your forehead? Like surely your kids would fare better with a mom who’s a little more, well, competent. Do you tend to shoulder life’s burdens, forgetting to [...]

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Facing Fiona

February 3, 2011

She crawls into bed with me this morning, carrying a small toy, and a two-year-old wound reopens, fresh. “Guess where I got my doll?” she asks. It’s been some time since I’ve seen it, and I don’t want to look at it, talk about it now. I swallow. “The movies.” “Guess!” “I did.” “The movie [...]

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31 Days of Encouragement: Grace for Living {Day 24}

January 24, 2011

But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen. ~2 Peter 3:18 Each day she scratches a blue line through another day on the list, waiting for 6 weeks to pass, for the moment when the earrings that first [...]

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Sometimes Less is More

December 18, 2010
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We’re not always consistent in our Christmas gift giving. Because we don’t pay for gifts on credit, each year is different. Last year we told our kids to be prepared for a slim Christmas, but they thought it was one of the best. How? When there’s less to spend, every dollar counts. Shopping becomes smarter. [...]

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Runaway Mommy

November 24, 2010

I replied to an email of Heather’s last night and admitted that I was at Barnes and Noble because I’d run away from home. Not in a dangerous, abandon-my-family kind of way—Daddy was home and I was 20 minutes and a phone call away—but in an I can’t do this anymore and I have to [...]

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