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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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