I recognized the cough. The bark that comes in the night after tucking in. So the youngest girl and I…
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Shine for Jesus
As I drop each of my younger children at the Sunday school door, I pat a shoulder and whisper, “Shine…
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Refocus: The Busy Gifts
Delightful December. Blessings busting. Crammed calendar! I had started to dread the week by Saturday afternoon. Sighs. How? How to…
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Father/Son Retreat
…We drove to Petersburg, Kentucky. Stopped along the way at Joyce Kilmer memorial forest. We stayed in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. We…
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Toasty Warm
This habit many of us know about. But often I need to be reminded of it in the thick of…
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I’m Four. Let’s Go Some More.
“Push me high! Push me high and we’ll fly all the way up to the moon,” …he says through giggles…
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Steering home
It began as a game. Driving home from some activity one afternoon, I said to our eldest daughter, “Steer us…
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Steering Home
It began as a game. Driving home from some activity one afternoon, I said to our eldest daughter, “Steer us…
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It’s In The Thanksgiving
We’re pulling into the church parking lot to pick up the two drama girls when she asks the question. Mama?…
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Aleida’s Challenge: Photos of You with Your Children
While we were at the beach I got photos of each of the children with Hodgepodgedad. What fun he is!…
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Taming the “wild west”
In a recent post on Passionate Purposeful Parenting entitled Defense in Depth, I wrote about the methods we use to…
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Just as you want it
You can have just as you want it when you are by yourself years from now. Nana said it. She…
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It’s All in the Tone
We’re at the neighborhood pool on a Saturday. Littlest guy, who is not scared of the water at all, jumped…
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