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An Education in Wonder
My blog has been quiet lately, but not our little people! Summer is hot with catching tadpoles and frogs and caterpillars and hoping the ones in the tub in the girls’ room turn into butterflies. Snacks...
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Greedy and Needy at Christmas
The fourth advent candle is lit and in we’re in the last straight away before Christmas. We’re trying hard not to be too exhausted from the weeks of putting way too many red hots on sugar cookies and...
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They Grew!
Some time, too late in the summer to plant flowers from seed, I decided to try to plant flowers to cut for bouquets. I read The Easy Cut Flower Garden by Lisa mason Ziegler and did everything she...
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Beauty School
God wants us to be thinking about whatever is lovely (Phil 4:8) but the trouble is, that just like everything else, our sense of beauty has been corrupted by the fall. We can’t always trust ourselves...
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How to Not Grow Weary
So yesterday I was struggling to put sentences together while I wrote about being a weary mama. And a couple hours later I realized I forgot to write the second half of the post. So here it is. This...
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Weary Mama
“And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the...
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Work in Process
Not everything was ready in time for Christmas. It’s true! I have a nice pile of things that didn’t quite get finished up in time and a larger pile of things that never got started. We found great...
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Less sleep, more joy!
We first met our Elisabeth Anne on September 3. And we love her! Shortly after Miriam was born my husband summarized our transition to parenthood by saying something about less sleep and more joy. At...
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Baby Waiting
I’m in the home stretch of baby waiting these days. Any chores that require bending over aren’t getting done and very few others are either now that I think of it. But slowly we’ve been getting tiny...
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Have a daughter? Build a wall.
Jen Wilkin wrote an excellent post, On Daughters and Dating: How to Intimidate Suitors. Here is a little snippet: build a wall In Song of Solomon 8:8-9 we hear a family’s hope that their young sister...
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At the end of my day, when my labors are through…
I used to listen to this song on my way to work during my banking days. And the last few days it’s been on my mind before my daughters wake up and after they go to bed. I love the reminder to praise...
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Lazy Eaters
The sluggard buries his hand in the dish and will not even bring it back to his mouth. - Proverbs 19:24 He’s hungry, the food’s prepared, he’s sitting at the table, spoon in the bowl, and it’s just too...
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Just how clean is your home supposed to be?
This is a post about cleaning my home. And it might be really boring. And you might already know this. But I find that it’s something I have to re-learn all the time. Whether I’m in the mood to try and...
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Do not run away from God to satisfy your longings and relieve your anxieties.
A woman who fears the Lord will not run away from God to satisfy her longings and relieve her anxieties. She will wait for the Lord. She will hope in God. She will stay close to the heart of God and...
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The Difference Between Pouring a Drink and Real Spiritual Work
We live in a culture that values intellectual work over physical work. And this kind of thinking can easily creep into our thinking about what really matters to God, what *real* spiritual work looks...
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The Kitchen Sink’s Weekend Links!
Weekend Links! The GirlTalk blog has begun a series on teaching our girls to correctly handle their emotions. “But God doesn’t simply say to us as moms: ‘Sorry, I know it’s tricky, but just do your...
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Conversation Questions that go Beyond the Superficial
Do you ever find it hard, even talking with other Christian friends, to get to the point where you’re really encouraging each other spiritually? Here are a few lists of questions I came across to help...
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Children are emotional learners.
About five years ago I attended a regional Children Desiring God conference. It was really good. I still find myself thinking about what I learned there as I teach my own children now. So today I’m...
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So how’s the submission thing going?
Ephesians 5:22-6:9 gives us instruction on submitting to our husbands, our parents, and the people we work for. We all know it’s much easier to talk about these things than to do them. Here are a...
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Yay, for spring sweaters!
These were intended to be Easter sweaters but that didn’t quite happen. Luckily Easter was the most beautiful warm sunny day so we didn’t really need sweaters. And everyone’s enjoying their new spring...
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