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Lauryn’s Lovely Lemonade
Lauryn found an old juicer out at my Grandma’s house. Really old – it belonged to my great-grandma Allie. She loved it, and her Gigi gave it to her to bring to Tennessee with us. We’ve had fresh squeezed lemonade every week since! I think it’s her new specialty. She says the most important part…
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Make room for listening.
I gotta say….the mid-thirties are a good place to live. I’ve slowly noticed the absence of the self-doubt and comparisons with other peoples’ lives that plagued me in my 20’s. If asked at the time, I wouldn’t have owned up to struggling with such demons, but now in their absence (well, mostly) I see that…
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Rough Places
I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them. Isaiah 42:16 Walking blind. Bumping along, not sure of the…
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Photo Books: an easy system
I have friends who create lovely printed photo books; a family yearbook of sorts. I love looking through their books (does anyone else love photo albums? If there’s an album on your coffee table I take it as an invitation to pick it up and look through it), but every time I’d think about getting…
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What I’m loving in my lunch
Anyone else pack a daily lunch? It can get pretty routine. When I find a new lunch item that I look forward to eating, it feels pretty exciting. (Sad? True.) Red bell pepper strips. Celery. Carrots. Pretzels. Pita. All have been relegated to nothing more than delivery devices for this cheese. Try it! A friend…
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Fighting thru Fear
We took Lauryn horse-back riding for her birthday. Her birthday was in September….she started talking about wanting to ride a horse back in March. We arrived at the stables in Cooper Hill, TN and she was super excited. It was a gorgeous day and an idyllic setting, and Lauryn was spilling over with excited chatter.…
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to edify
edify: to teach (someone) in a way that improves the mind or character Kids. They’re little humans with issues like all of us. My oldest is a tween who is sometimes moody. My middle kid sometimes has a disrespectful attitude. And my youngest can be self-centered and quick to complain. We’re trying to address these things,…
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and these things remain
I have no illusions that I can do it all. So when life gets busy, things get cut. Life and its demands ebb and flow. There are seasons when I have many hours to call my own (in hindsight, a downright gluttonous amount of hours!), and seasons in which every hour is accounted for. There…
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In summer
Homemade ice cream. Mornings on the porch with coffee and the dawn song of birds singing. Visits from family and friends; highly anticipated, and always better than hoped for. Floating the river. Baseball games. The pool. Bright nail polish. Big beach hats. Georgia awash in green. Fireflies temping us outside…mosquitoes driving us back in. Sweet…
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the ol’ noggin
“OKAY BRAIN. KNOCK IT OFF!” Anyone else fight off ruminating thoughts? Circular fake conversations in your mind? Dwelling on an issue ad nauseam? ad nauseam: a Latin term for a discussion that has continued so long that it has continued “to [the point of] nausea”. I have. I think we all do it to some degree.…
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