Category Archives: Children

Sliding Into Summer!! Summer Plans For Kids…

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How’s everybody holding up these days?  If you are in the same “seasonal slide” as I am, you may appreciate my post over at Mothering From Scratch today. I talk about the collision of spring into summer and the hopes

Parenting: It’s All Relative

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Oh my friends, I am SO excited to be hanging out at The Kludgy Mom’s place today!!  Gigi has an amazing and incredibly successful blog over there.  She hosts an Around The Bonfire Series, where she has guest bloggers share

Devotional Diaries: “Jesus Wept” (John 11:35)

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I was talking with my 92-year-old precious neighbor about her life and how she is holding up in her older years… a conversation that continues through our days living close by as she roams over to my back yard randomly

Love Thy Neighbor

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I wrote this post back in the winter, and never published it.  I now realize how it resonates so deeply with my last Devotional of The Good Samaritan.  Perhaps this is one way to… “Go And Do”. When was the

It’s A GIVEAWAY! A Really Good One…

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(This is a sponsored post by Datevitation.com, but I would have done it for free.  Really.) Oh dear readers, you are in for a TREAT today!  I recently had the most wonderful opportunity to visit Datevitation.com and order a custom

I’m Mom of the YEAR!

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I am A MOM OF THE YEAR!!! Yep!  You read that RIGHT my friends!!!  Meredith over at The Mom of the Year decided I earned that award!!  Or maybe she ran out of moms to choose from… either way- I’ll

Savoring The Seasons of Motherhood…

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Today I am over at Mothering From Scratch as a regular contributing Momtor!  Motherhood… it’s an endless stream of seasons and phases and growth- and yet those changes in our children sometimes pass us by.  Sure, we celebrate the big

My Kiddos…

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 I have “pet names” for my kids… doesn’t every mom?  We all have more than one, perhaps.  But mine are very special.  They emulate the characteristics and personality traits of my little cherubs.  They are profoundly accurate and have significance

Why? Why? Why?

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I am traveling yet again my friends… I know.  It’s been quite a doozer of a season hasn’t it?  I have absolutely LOVED hanging with my blogging friends and hope that you have possibly met some new people through my

“When Life Gives You Lemons…”

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I first met Alexa because of a post I had written called, So Many Angels…  I have many friends who have lost a child and I immediately connected with my new friend.  No Holding Back is filled with sharing personal