- Health, Wellness, & Self Care, Motherhood, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Recovering Perfectionist
Dealing with online guilt, jealousy, and self-doubt
You aren't quite sure how to identify it, but you feel it. When your online friend announces she's switching to cloth diapers, entering a 5K, planning a home birth, sending off a book…
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“composing a beautiful existence that barely needs a savior”
"I impress the world with passionate, visible morality while avoiding God altogether. There is something to humility that is costly...something resembling humiliation...an outright declaration of the wreck we are without God rather than…
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When you see Lightning McQueen in yourself
“All he cared about was winning the big race and becoming famous.” That’s the line out of the board-book version of Cars I just read to my son. And it made me wince.
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End of May Blessings {Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 5.31.13}
Pardon me for a moment while I make two posts in one day. And pardon me while I say a big PHEW!!! and exhale on this last day of May. Sheesh, May was…
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Ezra Dawson, Fallen Hero: Honoring our Son’s Namesake on Memorial Day
The amazing story of us establishing contact with the family of our son's namesake, a fallen soldier.
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Dear Gym: it’s good to be back
I haven’t stepped on a scale in almost 2 months. But it doesn’t take some magic unsightly numbers to tell me what my body has been screaming at me for the last few…
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One woman’s survival story
Imagine, for a brief moment, that you are a young newlywed who has just found out that you are expecting your first child. Then, imagine landing in the hospital with that child before…
- 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
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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One month home
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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The chaos of moving and settling in
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…
