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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What a terrible attitude, huh? I know. But if I have to break up one more fight, say good-bye to one more broken Willow Tree figurine (They broke 2 today. Okay, really just one of the boys keeps breaking things), or make one more pitcher of Kool-Aid, I’
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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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#1. We think of persecution being an early church thing, but did you know that global persecution of Christians is actually higher now than at any other time past?
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Right next to the long window on the 6th floor I found this exhibit of antiquities from Israel. This long-term exhibit is called History and Archaeology of Ancient Israel,
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