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  • Finding "Home" in 2013,  Five Minute Fridays,  Messy Faith,  Military and Veteran Life,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Afraid {Five Minute Friday}

    / February 1, 2013 / 7 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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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Family,  Marriage,  Motherhood

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 01.30.13

    / January 30, 2013 / 6 Comments

    It’s been a while, and I really need this post today. January has been a pretty tough month. There was the two weeks of flu…and the sleeplessness…That in itself has taken me through…

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  • Motherhood,  Recovering Perfectionist

    My slow journey away from attachment parenting

    / January 24, 2013 / 264 Comments

      Attachment parenting didn’t work for me. And, probably more importantly, attachment parenting didn’t work for my firstborn son. Here is our story: Honestly, it started before he was even born…with his tendency for…

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  • Marriage

    A Captured Moment: Savoring the Everyday of Marriage

    / January 22, 2013 / 7 Comments

    Friday morning… a day off. A bowl of oatmeal, a bright green shirt, tousled hair. An everyday, every-morning moment… Blue-green eyes, bright sunlight bursting through my kitchen window. A moment that took my breath…

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  • Family,  Finding "Home" in 2013

    A place for us

    / January 19, 2013 / 4 Comments

    I should be walking, or ellipticaling, or weight lifting. But instead I am sitting on the floor of the gym facing the back side of an older gentleman on a workout bike watching…

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  • Family,  Five Minute Fridays,  Motherhood

    Cherished: choosing to cherish the hard motherhood moments

    / January 18, 2013 / 7 Comments

    Of the 23 lullaby CDs that we own that could be in the CD player this week…it’s this one. It’s ironic really. It’s the only one that has the word “cherished” in the…

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  • Messy Faith,  Motherhood,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    When I’m not enough to be a good mother: where God’s grace begins

    / January 14, 2013 / 29 Comments

    I think that God created motherhood to show me how sinful and inadequate I am at being a good mother…and thus how much I desperately need Him and His grace. Because there is…

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  • Ezra,  Family,  Motherhood

    In which I can’t even read a four letter word…or is it five? {five minute friday}

    / January 11, 2013 / 12 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,…

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  • Miscellaneous,  Motherhood

    11 Books I Read in 2012

    / January 10, 2013 / 12 Comments

    One of the goals that I established for myself back in March of 2012 was to read more books. Well not so much more. Just read books, period. Because it’s something I hadn’t…

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  • Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Recovering Perfectionist

    Harmful Courtship Teachings: the Myth of the Construction Paper Heart

    / January 7, 2013 / 43 Comments

    I’m currently a 25-year-old married woman and mother of one. This morning my son woke up at 5:45, but was scared to enter the hallway because the hall night-light was broken. He crawled…

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