There was this one particular Sunday, about two months ago, that I was sitting with our 6-year-old in church. John David was in rare form that day, just bursting at the seams with thoughts to speak and questions to ask, all during the sermon, of course. I actually sat in the pew and jotted down the hilarious things he said while it was fresh on my mind, for your reading enjoyment: “Mom, in the past, did they have doctors?” “Did […]
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*** Disclosure for legal purposes: I often include links in my blog posts, and I do collect advertising fees for these links. I do not promote any product I do not believe in, and all opinions are my own.*** Some years Halloween sneaks up on me and finds me woefully unprepared. Seriously, every single year we end up scrambling the day of trick-or-treating to figure out someone’s costume. At least one person ALWAYS has no plan. THIS year I want […]
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***When you purchase through links on my webpage, I do earn advertising fees.*** 12 Days of Jumping Into Fall & Recovering From Summer Day 3: Shopping, Creating, & Learning Online (In case you missed the first 2 days, here are the links: Day 1 House Cleaning Playlist and Day 2 Tackling Low Self Esteem.) Do you know what else you tend to do when you get your days back to yourself? Well, personally, I pop open my laptop and go gallivanting […]
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I’m no expert here, but I think the first step is realizing that this is a problem. It’s not a little problem. Living defeated is a BIG BAD DEAL when it’s stopping you from fulfilling your purpose.
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Today is the 5th day of school, and guess what. It is definitely time to recover from summer. And you know what else? It’s going to take me way more than 12 days to recover the basement playroom and the stacks of papers from a summer of neglect. There are about a billion cluttered surfaces in my house that I’ve saved for “when the boys go back to school.” And you do not want to see the storage room where […]
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School started back yesterday. This was an exciting event that I’d finished in high gloss and framed in my mind as a victorious day ushering in a new era for me. Without a single pre-schooler following me around I will have a spotless house, serve gourmet dinners, volunteer at their school, and run wild and free through grassy meadows. Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! High expectations. I love to do that to myself. Three years ago, my heart began to give me […]
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We just got home from spending 10 days with our family down South. I can say with complete sincerity that it was a fun, fulfilling, trip.
Were there melt-downs? Yes, especially me, okay. I was the one with the melt downs.
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Only three weeks of summer are left.
Three measly weeks. I’m ready and excited about this because this enters a new phase of life for me. I’ve never had ALL FOUR kids in school before.
That’s right. The baby is going to kindergarten.
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A few weeks ago, I was grocery shopping alone at the Commissary. It’s funny. When I was pregnant, strangers in stores always talked to me. “You’re so….big. Are you having twins?” Oh, how I loved those little chats…Then when the boys were babies, people still talked to us, but these days we’re just regular old people. I don’t get comments unless I take all 4 of them out together. Then of course, no one can believe they are all boys. […]
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