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    • Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith
    • Online Writing Portfolio
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    • 20 Posts to Encourage Young New Moms
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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Ezra,  Family,  Finding "Home" in 2013,  Military and Veteran Life,  The Preschool Years

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 05.16.13

    / May 16, 2013 / 8 Comments

    This transition out of the Army and move to North Carolina has been and will continue to be an adjustment in so many ways, but we are rich in God's grace and in…

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  • Ezra,  Finding "Home" in 2013,  Miscellaneous,  The Preschool Years

    One month home

    / May 15, 2013 / 4 Comments

    As of today, we have lived in our new home for exactly one month, and have been here in our new hometown just a few days beyond that. In so many ways our…

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  • Family,  Finding "Home" in 2013,  Military and Veteran Life,  Miscellaneous

    The chaos of moving and settling in

    / May 13, 2013 / 5 Comments

    The day that we moved into our new apartment was probably the most difficult and hectic day of the entire moving process. We had hoped that the movers would deliver our household goods…

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  • Family,  Finding "Home" in 2013,  Miscellaneous

    The days in between

    / May 12, 2013 / 0 Comments

    We arrived in North Carolina six days before our household goods did. It was a long six days. It was nice because we weren’t having to spend money for a hotel – we…

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  • Military and Veteran Life,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Final thoughts on my husband’s six years in the Army

    / May 8, 2013 / 18 Comments

    It’s within an hour of midnight on the evening of our last official day in the Army. I just finished watching about three straight hours of science fiction television, and even at the…

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  • Family,  Finding "Home" in 2013

    Saying goodbye and closing the door

    / May 7, 2013 / 2 Comments

    Our movers were gone, along with our household goods. Our landlady had just pulled away after inspecting our home. Ezra was asleep on the living room floor. We made several trips in and…

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  • Finding "Home" in 2013,  Military and Veteran Life,  Miscellaneous

    Moving Days: garbage dumpsters, packing, pizza, goodbyes, magic erasers, and more

    / May 6, 2013 / 8 Comments

    Moving Day 1 dawned lovely, warm, and sunny. We woke up around 6am because the movers had said they would be there between 8 and 9 am. I was scurrying around trying to…

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  • Family,  Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Miscellaneous

    Our last days in Kentucky

    / April 29, 2013 / 2 Comments

    Along with preparing to move to North Carolina in the space of 10 days, I was also trying to squeeze in last minute coffee dates, playdates, and appointments so I could spend some…

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  • Ezra,  Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Motherhood,  Mothering Through Fatigue

    How to be a better mom while being exhausted

    / April 23, 2013 / 81 Comments

    If there was ever a morning that *I* needed the "how to be a better mom while being exhausted" post it was this morning. So I turned to my arsenal of tricks and…

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  • Finding "Home" in 2013,  Five Minute Fridays,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Jump {Five Minute Friday}

    / April 19, 2013 / 10 Comments

    Today I am participating in a weekly feature on lisajobaker.com called Five Minute Fridays. Bloggers are given a writing prompt (topic) and told to write for *five minutes. “No *editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.” Today’s…

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