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31 Days of Real Life: Easy Like Sunday Morning (NOT)

October 3, 2011

When Lionel Richie sang “Easy like Sunday morning,” he obviously wasn’t referring to a typical family getting ready for church. Not ours, at least. Misplaced clothing, lost shoes, sleepy-headed stragglers, flaring tempers: all this and more fight against us on any given Sunday. This week our 10-year-old son got in the car in dress short [...]

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What I Learned from Sara

September 26, 2011

Sweet Sara passed on from a life of pain and confinement to one of pure joy and freedom late Saturday evening. (Read my tribute and those of many others here.) In February Sara left a comment on one of my first Camera Phone Friday posts, telling how she always followed Twitter photo links and how [...]

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Choose Joy: For Sara

September 21, 2011

A week ago I learned that my friend and fellow (in)courage author, Sara (or Gitz, as she is affectionately known), won’t be here with us much longer. Sara suffers from a disease with a long, complicated name. She has been homebound for some time, gets sick easily, and lives with constant pain. Sara’s mother, brother, [...]

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Big Birthday Weekend and Homemade Pizza Night

September 5, 2011

It’s really strange not having a baby any more. Our youngest turned six in June, this weekend the second youngest turned eight, and Tuesday the third youngest turns ten. We’ve had a big birthday weekend: the new Winnie the Pooh movie and Cracker Barrel on Friday evening; Moe’s lunch and pizza night on Saturday; church [...]

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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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Why, Hello There!

August 22, 2011

Out-of-state company; preparations for a new year of Classical Conversations; one son returning to college tomorrow and another one moving back home on the same day; savoring the last days of summer break with the family: all this and more has slowed my blogging pace lately. I wanted to take a moment to share a [...]

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A Day at the Lake with Neutrogena Wet Skin Sunblock

August 4, 2011

This week our family took a trip to the lake to have some fun and test Neutrogena’s new Wet Skin sunblock spray. Neutrogena is the first in the U.S. market to introduce a new technology called Helioplex, which provides better, longer protection from harmful UVA rays. One of the neatest things about Wet Skin is [...]

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Our Moe’s ilovequeso.com Flashmob Video

July 25, 2011

You know you have awesome friends when you can talk them into flashmobbing at Moe’s, not only in the middle of the free kids’ night crowd but also on the one day of the year when they’re offering free queso. The lines were long and the emotions high as our group waited to perform. An [...]

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Blood, Sweat, and Song in Alabama: Part 2

July 11, 2011

The kids and I have attended two singing schools this summer, one last month in Alabama and one this past week here in Georgia. I’m so thankful this opportunity is available to us. I’m sure a lot of you are wondering what a singing school is, so I’m going to give you a crash course. [...]

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