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A year of LOVE

A year of LOVE

One year ago today my family embarked on an adventure. We didn't know it was an adventure when it started. It was not one we chose. It was hard. It was scary. It was painful. The day after my parents celebrated their 41st wedding anniversary, my dad went into the...

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Deep Dive

Deep Dive

I have a deep and tender heart. When I experience something, I am immediately connected to about 6 layers of meaning for it and in a second I can go down to that depth while also remaining on the surface to talk about it. I think this scares some people sometimes. A...

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Reflection

Reflection

Based on the flooding in my heart, you would have thought the school was burning as my oldest walked towards it. It was a normal morning. There was nothing out of the ordinary to the untrained eye. To the mother’s eye; however, there was so much. This weekend, the...

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Celebrate how far you have come

Celebrate how far you have come

My husband was traveling…again. The kids were sick…again. There was paper and clutter all over the counter…again. My littlest had started waking up in the night…again. Because the kids were sick, I was not going to be able to make it to my parents' house…again. When...

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T-shirts on picture day (gasp)

T-shirts on picture day (gasp)

My palms are sweaty as I type this. Today was picture day at my son's school. It has been fast approaching, and I had all kinds of ideas about what he would wear. How would his long hair hang this day? Would he smile the fake, scared looking smile? Or the real smile I...

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Slowing down and doing my work

Slowing down and doing my work

I have been purging EVERYTHING in my office lately. Books I have read (books I haven't read), articles and blog posts I have read (articles and blog posts I haven't read), things I have written and posted or made public, and things I had written, that at one point I...

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Being Brave at School

Being Brave at School

The week has come: school is about to start. Jackson will be going to kindergarten this year...every day! Last summer, because of Jackson's summer birthday, we decided to wait a year to put him in kindergarten. We were going to have him go to pre-k for a year until he...

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