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My slow journey away from attachment parenting
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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A Captured Moment: Savoring the Everyday of Marriage
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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A place for us
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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Cherished: choosing to cherish the hard motherhood moments
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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When I’m not enough to be a good mother: where God’s grace begins
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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In which I can’t even read a four letter word…or is it five? {five minute friday}
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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11 Books I Read in 2012
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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Harmful Courtship Teachings: the Myth of the Construction Paper Heart
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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Opportunity knocks. Will you let me in?
Opportunity knocks at my door this morning. Will you let me in? What will you do with me? When my car won’t start for the second morning in a row…when I have to…
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Flashcards in Action {a game for active toddlers}
Flashcards are an amazing tool to help teach and reinforce concepts like letters, shapes, numbers, and simple vocabulary. But if your toddler is anything like mine…you can spend hours saving, printing, coloring, laminating,…
