Tag: christian living
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Manage Your Schedule before it Manages You
During a recent conversation with a friend, she lamented, “I feel so out of whack; I just can’t seem to get myself or my children on a schedule.” Chuckling, I replied, “I can’t seem to get myself off of a schedule.” My love for all things structured and pre-planned comes honestly, for I come from…
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It Takes A Village
Recently, I read an article stating that America is actually one of the few cultures in the world that tends to rear families tightly within their nuclear unit. In many other cultures several generations live in the same house, or at the very most, within a stone’s throw. However, I have noticed more American women…
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Set Low Expectations
I love a good task list, and boy do I love a good long term goal, so bring it on! Who are we kidding, I like daily goals, too — any goal that I can jot down and later check off, or, my preference, mark with a fluorescent pink highlighter as COMPLETED just makes me…
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More Toys do not Make Happier Children
My first baby shower was perfect. There were so many gifts that I couldn’t fit them all in my car, so I had to make two trips back to my hostess’ home to retrieve everything. The baby in my womb already had enough toys, games, books and clothes to last until she was five…
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No Use Crying Over Spilled Milk
Although I appreciate a clean house and a clean car, I have never been one to regularly give anything the “white glove treatment.” When friends say, “I just can’t sleep if there are dishes in the kitchen sink,” I used to think they needed to take a strong “chill pill.” However, after my first child…
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Mommin’ it ain’t Easy
I have learned a lot since becoming a Mother. In my mid-twenties, before marriage and parenthood, I asked God to help me to develop humility, selflessness, patience, and self-control. You know how people say that God answers our prayers, but not always the way we hope – well, let me tell ya somethin’ — never…
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It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to
Let me tell ya somethin’ — I am a MAJOR grudge holder and scorekeeper, like about EVERYTHING. Okay, I feel a lot better now that I have gotten that out. I believe I have always been this way, “tit for tat.” I am the second child, so I grew up thinking that, naturally, my parents loved my brother more and always gave him special treatment. (joking .…
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Because I said So
In the past 12 hours we have endured two hurricane-level breakdowns with my 3.5 year old over something of major, life altering proportions . . . clothes. See, my daughter has a few things in her wardrobe that she likes to wear over and over again, no matter what season or time of day, few…
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But it was 99% off
Let me tell ya somethin’ . . . I am a hoarder who likes to purge. HA! — is that even a real thing?!? I like to think so, because like most things in my life, I live in extremes. I am not sure when it started but remember as a little girl loving “stuff,” lots of…