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    • Legalism and Grace: How I Left the IFB Movement and Chose Grace
    • Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith
    • Online Writing Portfolio
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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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    Breathing out

    / February 23, 2013 / 9 Comments

    Yesterday was my husband’s first day as a…civilian? I want to say civilian. But as we are still “employed” by the Army for another 2 1/2 months, and officially on leave, it’s not…

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  • Birthdays,  Miscellaneous

    26 things you probably didn’t know about me

    / February 20, 2013 / 19 Comments

    In honor of my 26th birthday, I thought I would let you all get to know me a little better. These are listed it no particular order and are completely random. 1. I…

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  • Birthdays

    26 Birthdays

    / February 19, 2013 / 1 Comment

    Birth:

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Birthdays,  Family,  Miscellaneous

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 02.11.13

    / February 11, 2013 / 0 Comments

    Beauty: the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit {Merriam Webster’s Dictionary}

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  • Marriage,  Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    The importance of community in a Christian marriage

    / February 4, 2013 / 16 Comments

    I wrote the following words about my husband and my marriage in a private message to two close friends of mine. “He has been getting on my nerves all day…” Around the New…

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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 ~ 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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