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Things I forgot about coldness
Blankets. This might sound weird, but after five years in the tropics, we just don't have blankets any more. I mean the "extra blankets", right? The ones you slip in between the sheet and the...
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On the mornings when the boys don't wake up at zero dark thirty and stand at the top of the stairs with a constant stream of, "NOW can we come down, Mama, NOW can we?"... On these mornings when they...
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Randomness
Sometimes the most innocuous things can completely derail our homeschool day. For example, yesterday while teaching Judah his new piano piece ("Honey Bee"), I randomly hummed my way through that old...
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Some Whine for Wednesday
Parenting is really hard. And frustrating. And annoying. Or rather, Parenting is hard and kids are annoying and frustrating. Don't get me wrong, it goes without saying that I love my children and...
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Every day after the schoolwork is done, the Davies boys and the Forshey boys go outside. It's an explosion of pent-up, barely contained energy that is, I admit it, somewhat exhilarating to watch....
View Articlewritten one spring, in a moment of loss and longing
god is the ocean and the boatmy life swells and sinks to the rhythm of his providencesafe in his will, i float above the unpredictable tempestsprotected alike from storm dangers and the whispering...
View ArticleRefelctions on a story he told me about game time at Trail Life
My straight-as-an-arrow sonThe black and white oneHe stops in the relay race when he stumblesTo regain his balance and then continue on, Hopping one-footed because to touch the other to the ground is...
View ArticleStorytellers
I hosted a party tonight for a friend who's recently started marketing for KEEP Collective-- a jewelry line from Stella and Dot. The mission of the line is to help women tell their stories through...
View ArticleCourage and Valor
We had a guest speaker of sorts this morning in our Sunday School class. She brought to light, almost as a side note, the story of God's call to Gideon. Gideon is threshing wheat in hiding from the...
View Article#wordoftheyear
I have always loved, but never before participated in the tradition of choosing a Word for the Year as part of a New Year's resolution. It seems a fitting addition to the mental list of goals I make...
View ArticleThe changing face of Mothercare.
I have always been a vocal advocate of the practice of self-care. Frequently on this blog, in my Facebook feed, and any chance I get in person, I exhort my fellow-moms to set aside time to refresh...
View ArticleKeeping it real. Always.
One of my goals on this blog has always been to show the Real of my life-- even when it gets messy and unpleasant. Same goes for my Facebook page. Y'all have seen my bedhead, my messy kitchen, my...
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#wordoftheyear2018
I've finally found my word for 2018 and I"m excited to share about it, but first, a review....The word for me in 2017 was Steadfast. When the Lord put that word on my heart a year ago, I could never...
View ArticleHello there...
I read an article, years ago, about how women frequently have their self-identity wrapped up in some way with their homes. So a messy, cluttered home makes a woman feel herself to be anxious and...
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Lessons on Faith from Michelangelo's Pieta
One of the highlights of our trip to Rome last week never made it to photodocumentation on my Facebook feed. There are some experiences too deep to capture with electronic means and I find myself...
View ArticleYou might not know what you think you know about me
(April is Autism Awareness month, so this post is specifically about the experience of neuro-challenged parenting, but I want to high five all the moms out there dealing with the so-called "Silent", or...
View Articlethe secrets of simple things
standing still for a few moments by the window, I force myself to notice the world outside. And my heart is warmed-- a touch of healing.There's been rain this week, and we finally raked an entire...
View ArticleOn surrender.
If I could travel back in time, there's a thing I desperately wish I could tell my twenty-two year old self: newly entered into motherhood, overwhelmed with the immense stretch of required selflessness...
View ArticleParadox
Every parent is likely familiar with the subtle desire to recreate your children in your own image, but with all the bits you don't like about yourself corrected. We all do this, right? And of course,...
View ArticleSincere, if a little dramatic.
For a full decade, the year 2010 has stood out as The Worst Ever, but 2020 has topped that. And then some. Besides all the national and international crap going on, there's plenty of personal grief and...
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The sun comes up every morning over the mountain ridge outside my living room windows. It slowly creeps across the floor, the angles changing slightly, minute by minute. As it unrolls its golden way...
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Foundations are comforting. Our house is closing in on its one hundredth birthday and, while the pipes are leaky, the floors are creaky, and the electrical system is one you really only want to look...
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Joy #4 and #5: bending and letting go
Through my entire life I've been surrounded by the metaphor of parenting as archer, launching his arrows (a quiverful of them, ideally) into the world; by faith, extending his/her influence into the...
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Joy #6
It's a slow spring this year... In Virginia, spring is often a "wham, bam, thank you, Ma'am" affair of two weeks' gorgeous weather in between blizzards and suffocating heat and humidity, but this year...
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Resignation to the New Year
And so the New Year limps up my front walk-- no fat jolly baby, is 2022. This Year is thin, gray, wet, and naked. She shivers on my porch, hesitant as to her welcome, as well she might be. The past...
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