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  • Start Here!
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    • 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
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    • Our Love Story
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    • Mothering Through Fatigue Blog Series
    • 20 Posts to Encourage Young New Moms
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    • Homecoming 2009
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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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  • Allume 2013,  Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Marriage,  Military and Veteran Life,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Love in the Deep End: A Star is Born

    / December 24, 2019 / 2 Comments

    A deep and broken love...a star is born. Not the star of a woman thrust into fame, but the star of sacrificial love that burned bright because a woman gave herself away by…

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  • Allume 2013

    “…for the time would fail me to tell of…” {takeaways from #allume}

    / November 22, 2013 / 4 Comments

    There's so much more that I could say. But I've run out of time and words and I'm ready to move on. #allume

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  • Allume 2013,  Messy Faith

    They gave to me {takeaways from #allume}

    / November 20, 2013 / 4 Comments

    Allume is such a giving community. The people involved give - over and over and over.

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  • Allume 2013,  Family,  Marriage,  Military and Veteran Life,  Writing and blogging

    Choosing the one beside me

    / November 19, 2013 / 4 Comments

    How can I join hands with my sisters and shine in a brilliant army of stars when I'm not willing to join hands with the one standing beside me who should matter the…

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  • Allume 2013,  Marriage,  Military and Veteran Life

    How to keep loving when your marriage is running on empty

    / November 16, 2013 / 7 Comments

    As soon as Bianca uttered the words "the little oil that we have," I was overcome with a visual picture of what God was asking me to do - how He was going…

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  • Allume 2013

    They’re playing our song {takeaways from #allume}

    / November 15, 2013 / 6 Comments

    I wanted it to happen. A sign, a symbol, confirmation of God's love and grace - His voice saying, "Yes, my child, you are in the right place."

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  • Allume 2013,  Marriage,  Military and Veteran Life

    When your love for your spouse is depleted

    / November 14, 2013 / 16 Comments

    Love is a choice; but some days, I'm just too weary to make it.

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  • Allume 2013,  Finding "Home" in 2013,  Miscellaneous

    Guest post for Brightpeak Financial {takeaways from #Allume}

    / November 13, 2013 / 6 Comments

    I'd like to share how my husband and I have dealt with the drastic reduction in our income over the last year. Head over to Brightpeak to read "How to Make a 50%…

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  • Allume 2013,  Writing and blogging

    Write more, edit more, publish less {takeaways from #allume}

    / November 8, 2013 / 12 Comments

    Improving my writing, however, is something I can do right now. I've heeded these words - taken them on as a challenge to hone this craft.

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  • Allume 2013,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Writing and blogging

    Wrinkles (why I’m not writing a book right now) {takeaways from #allume}

    / November 2, 2013 / 22 Comments

    My stories can wait to be told until I'm mature enough to tell them well.

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This coming Tuesday it will be 4 years since my Grandma Carol went to heaven. This verse was one of 3 of her favorite verses that I had printed for her funeral. I selfishly picked designs that would complement the colors in my home, so I could keep and continue to display them.
Ezra grew again last night. With us both barefoot, our noses are at the same level.
I won four games of Guess Who against the birthday boy, so he handcuffed me and put me in “couch jail.” Such a raw deal. Do not recommend. #momlife #boymom #boymomlife
#boymomproblems #mommyproblems #kidswerehere
It’s fun being a mom to bigger boys. Dear mamas, it does get easier. At least a little bit.
So after having several inches of rain flood our garage at 10pm Saturday night and again at 6pm last night, Russ and I went on a mission to diagnose the problem. The problem was that all the pipe running from our driveway drainage culvert out to the street was either twisted, broken, cracked, or full of dirt and roots. We were racing another afternoon/evening of forecasted thunderstorms as well as working in 90+ degree heat and (currently) 57% humidity. I’m really not sure how we didn’t die. I’m not exaggerating when I say that this is physically the hardest and most exhausting day I’ve had in years.
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