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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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    • ADHD Homeschooling: Hacks, Tricks, and Tips for Making It Work
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    • Home preschool resources for the tired, non-creative, busy mom
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  • Start Here!
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    • The Story Behind the Header
    • Blog’s Mission Statement
    • Blog Series
    • Top Ten Posts of All Time
    • Legalism and Grace: How I Left the IFB Movement and Chose Grace
    • Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith
    • Online Writing Portfolio
  • Marriage
    • Our Love Story
  • Faith
  • Motherhood
    • Mothering Through Fatigue Blog Series
    • 20 Posts to Encourage Young New Moms
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    • Our final military deployment homecoming: finally together forever!
    • Homecoming 2009
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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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    • Home preschool resources for the tired, non-creative, busy mom
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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Ezra,  Little Brother,  Motherhood,  Special Needs Parenting,  The Preschool Years

    I cleaned the play room today: here’s what I realized about my boys

    / February 23, 2019 / 1 Comment

    Every once in a blue moon, the boys’ play room needs a good cleaning. It’s the kind of things where kids need to not be present. Momma needs a chance to sort through…

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

    Hormones & Fatigue: Fighting Fatigue by Understanding My Cycle

    / February 19, 2019 / 0 Comments

    In my last post, Hormones & Fatigue: Part 1 – My Health & Weight History (and Update), I explained what I have gone through in the last ten years regarding my health, weight loss…

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  • Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Mothering Through Fatigue,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Hormones & Fatigue: Part 1 – My Health & Weight History (and Update)

    / February 17, 2019 / 1 Comment

    Structuring my life and health AROUND my hormonal cycle is the only way I succeed at anything. I think I will always struggle with fatigue, anxiety, depression, weight management, and digestive issues. This doesn't…

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  • Special Needs Parenting

    Why it’s so hard for special needs families to find the right therapist

    / February 6, 2019 / 2 Comments

    Finding a good therapist that works for YOUR child and YOUR family in YOUR location with YOUR financial situation just is not that simple.

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  • Ezra,  Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Motherhood,  Special Needs Parenting

    When you’re discouraged and don’t know what to do, take a walk

    / February 2, 2019 / 3 Comments

    We return home wet, muddy, and hungry. I'm still just as lost as to what to do to help him. I'm discouraged, yet somehow a little bit refreshed from our adventure walk. I…

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  • A Little Princess movie snow perfectionism
    Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Miscellaneous,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Recovering Perfectionist

    A raw look at my never-ending war on perfectionism

    / January 15, 2019 / 1 Comment

    A week ago we sat on the counselor’s couch. I was perturbed because even after declaring to my husband, “We’re here for you,” somehow the conversation kept coming around to me and my…

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Ezra,  Family,  Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Little Brother,  Motherhood,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Special Needs Parenting

    2018 in review: just a year we were capable of more

    / January 2, 2019 / 2 Comments

    Can I be honest with you all for a second? I’ve been a little bit annoyed with the New Year hubbub the last week. People sharing their #topnine photos, sharing resolutions, sharing what…

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  • Family,  Miscellaneous,  Motherhood,  The Preschool Years

    Practically perfect in every way? A Mary Poppins Returns review

    / December 27, 2018 / 0 Comments

    Mary Poppins Returns: Remake, Sequel, or Bust? Viewers may have mixed expectations about the new movie, “Mary Poppins Returns.” For some purists that have loved the classic since it was released in the…

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  • Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Motherhood

    Adult figure skating: why this mom is taking up a new hobby!

    / December 14, 2018 / 8 Comments

    I suppose my love affair with figure skating all began on my 11th birthday. Sometime between Christmas 1997 and my birthday in February of the next year, I told my mom explicitly what…

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  • Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    I’ve been blogging for 10 years now. Here’s what I’ve learned.

    / December 3, 2018 / 0 Comments

    Ten years ago today I began my blog as a way to keep in contact with friends and family afar due to military life. I had no idea then what this space would…

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