Tonight I’m hosting my home school moms’ group. That means that I will be spending all day trying to clean up my house, take care of four children, and cook. I need to make sure that I don’t fall into the prideful trap of cleaning up my house to try to make myself look good. It’s not about me. Let’s not put on a show and act like my house is always this neat, if I even manage to get […]
» Read moreWe do something that is a little outside the norm. We love to host out-of-town guests. We practically beg people to come visit. We have hosted friends from high school, college, tons of family, work friends, church friends, and even new friends. We do it a lot less now that we live on the other side of the country from almost everyone we know. When we lived in the DC area, we had a constant stream of people stopping through. […]
» Read moreSometimes I get stressed out. Like now. I’m kind of on the verge of that right this second. Here’s why my face is all broken out like a teenager this week! It’s Friday at 2pm. The whole weekend is about to smack us in the face, and it’s not one of those nice, breezy weekends. It’s one of those crazy-insanely busy-hallmark weekends that make me want to stick my head in the sand. For starters, we promised a friend we’d […]
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