Parenting
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Rambles and ramblings
Yesterday we took yet another walk. It leaves me with several themes spinning around in my head. Actually we took two walks: one to a place I’d never been, and one to the…
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Mother’s Day (and Bilbo Baggins)
We spent some time at my parents’ house yesterday, celebrating Mother’s Day and retrieving two kids, a dog, a rabbit, and two hamsters. My husband and I had gone to our denomination’s District…
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Parenting Is Your Highest Calling (or… is it?)
I’ve had Parenting Is Your Highest Calling: And Eight Other Myths That Trap Us In Worry and Guilt on my TBR list for a couple of years. In it, Leslie Leyland Fields debunks…
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Weird but good
I did something weird tonight. After my kids were tucked into bed, I slipped into the laundry room where their Christmas presents are hidden, selected several, unwrapped them, and put them in the…
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Kaleidoscope
In our house, it isn’t just the little kids who color. The grown-up ones do, too. These are from Prism Designs. I decided a long time ago that if I’m going to color…
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Wordle of the Day: Ouch!
I’ve wasted far too much time over at Wordle. For people in love with words, it’s a gripping addiction! Wendell Berry poems look great as wordles. So do e e cummings poems. So…
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The Shaping of a Christian Family
Few books make me weep, but this one by Elisabeth Elliot brought me to tears more than once. This level of emotion was highly impractical, as I read most of it wedged tightly between other mothers…
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Words
My mother gave me a book of poems she used as an elementary school teacher. “Why?” I asked. “Why not keep them?” I think her greatest gift to me is books… She was…
