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When the Trust Wavers

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Twelve years ago we trusted God with a move across the country, far from my home and family whom I dearly love, but near my husband’s father.  Then the precious man we so love died, the few remaining relatives moved away, and our visitors dwindled.  Now there is nobody nearby.  Our trust has made us [...]

Contentment

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I’m blogging about contentment over at The Simple Homemaker this week. It’s a challenge for everyone, and something I struggle with personally. I posted some great tips that really help me when the discontentment bug bites. Check it out.

Reality Check

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We sat for a long while together, my arms wrapped around her chubby body, her small head resting against my chest. She gazed up at me with her big blue eyes and smiled the smile she got from me. I smiled back at the little two-year-old wonder snuggled in my lap. It was one of [...]

All the Answers

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A dinner conversation: Daddy: Marissa will help you with your jam, Elijah. Marissa: I think this time he should do it himself so he can learn how. Emily: I think so, too. Nobody’s going to spread his jam for him when he’s a grown-up? Elijah: When I’m a grown-up I’m going to marry Mommy, and [...]

Missed Opportunity

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We add the price of every item, always rounding up just in case, and cheer out loud when we come within pennies of our goal. Walking out of the grocery store, I grin and nod at the first two girls to ever steal my heart. They grin back, hop on the backs of our two [...]

Positive Parenting 3-6-5

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I am very blessed to be a guest author at Positive Parenting 3-6-5 today where I wrote about our Thanksgiving traditions. Pop on over and check it out. While you’re there… Look around the site. Donna of Positive Parenting 3-6-5 is a Christian homeschooling mother of seven. She has three daughters serving their Lord on [...]

When the Sickness Comes

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“I wanna-wanna do it by my own self,” she tells me in her two-year-old speak. They wanna-wanna do it by their own selves. They are “big” now. Too big for help. Too big for snuggles when there is playing to be done. Too big for sitting with Mama and counting fingers and toes. They wanna-wanna [...]

In the Master’s Hand

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Seven years ago I sat in the surgery ward of the county hospital with a three-month-old baby in my arms. This week an older child lay in the bed beside me. The feeling doesn’t change. When the nurse takes your child away, the child you have borne, nursed, tended, and loved, there is an emptiness [...]

The Big Bad Wolf

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At 26 months, little Rebecca holds her audience of one Mama spellbound as she relates the story of the Three Little Pigs. It is filled with emotion and hope, fear and trepidation. Finally the story reaches its climax. The Big Bad Wolf pounds on the door of the third Little Pig’s house. In her best [...]

Clearing the Queue

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Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. ~Psalm 90:12 We subscribe to Netflix. (I know. Who cares, right? Stick with me.) For a “low, low fee” we receive a DVD in the mail. We watch it, send it back and receive another one. Good movie. Good popcorn. [...]