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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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What I Did this Week While I Wasn’t at Photoshop World

September 4, 2010

Photoshop World was Tuesday-Friday this week in Las Vegas, and while I would have loved to have been there, I had a great week at home. Wednesday I took head shots for a lovely young actress. Thursday night two of my kids and I went to a Latin party. If you’ve ever thought I’m a [...]

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Family Photos 2010: All Together for a Moment in Time

August 5, 2010

The past couple of weeks have been bittersweet. We’ve often had all 10 of us together, as our oldest son has been doing summer work in town and coming home with my husband in the evenings, but we’ve been preparing to take our second son to college, out-of-state. Life as we know it will never [...]

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Your Child Needs You to be a Parent (and then you can be a friend)

July 19, 2010

Communicating with teens is not always easy. One of my biggest problems is a tendency to want to project a maturity of thought onto my kids beyond their years, and being dismayed when they don’t achieve it. We’re all a work in progress, and it takes time to get “there,” wherever “there” may be. Unfortunately, [...]

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The Bird’s Nest in My Front Porch Light

July 1, 2010

Last year we noticed a bird building a nest in our front porch light. My 15-year-old son wrapped some packing tape around the bottom to block the bird before it could lay eggs. Unfortunately, he was too late. We later noticed bird’s feathers stuck to the tape, and realized there had been eggs in the [...]

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My Baby Isn’t a Baby Anymore

June 25, 2010

With eight kids, we’ve had babies and toddlers for a long time. Over the past year it’s been a strange feeling to no longer need diapers, or much of anything from that department. The mental transition has come along gradually, the feeling that our family has moved past the baby stage. But this was the [...]

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Procter and Gamble’s “Thank You Mom” Campaign Reunites Women with Their Mothers

June 16, 2010
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My mother passed away six years ago, on my 38th birthday. Two years later, missing her was the impetus for starting my blog. During all but a short period of my life I lived close to her, so there’s no stash of cross-country letters. My treasures are handwritten recipe cards with instructions like: She would [...]

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