From the monthly archives:
I had a long day today (isn’t that what I always say this time of night?) When it came time to wind down the evening I just wanted to get everyone off to bed. I supervised a ‘main floor tidy’ and got the younger ones settled in. When I came back down the stairs [...]
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Back to the clinic today… Mercy’s cough seemed to be less frequent this morning than it was yesterday, so at first I thought she would breeze through this cold with no problems. Then after an hour or less of being up she started having a few coughing fits where she couldn’t seem to stop [...]
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It had been 5 days since anyone here has suffered any stomach illness- after 10 days of vomitting… but alas, we were not destined to make it a full week. My husband awoke feeling in less-than-optimal health. He started the day doing an unintentional intestinal cleanse which progressed to full fledged vomitting before noon. [...]
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The other morning, my husband came back in after leaving for work- he had this in his hands… He had left his Mountain Dew in the car overnight, and it had pushed frozen pop up and out of the straw. The pop ice art was entertaining in and of itself, but the best part about [...]
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This afternoon, my little Hope (not-quite-three years old) confidently came up to me and proudly proclaimed "Mom, ‘t’ starts with ‘tv’" Almost, dear… Share this!FacebookStumbleUponEmailPrint
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We’ve been hit, again, ugh. I was really hoping loading everyone up with kefir smoothies, filling those intestines with beneficial bacteria to fight off the bad guys, would prevent this bug from hitting, or at least from hitting so hard. It did last month… not this time. The bug has been making its [...]
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Each day is a new day, and I know I could (and should) be ready to hit the ground running with new resolve whenever the inspiration hits, but it just seems to hit more around this time of year… It’s a new year, though with New Year’s Day falling on a Tuesday it did [...]
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Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it. Proverbs 3:27 A devotional application of this verse, as pertaining to parenting, has me thinking of ‘withholding not’ the good- – hugs - my time - my undivided attention – help with a math [...]
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