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Motherhood

I Start Each Day…

August 10, 2012

I start each day with a soft voice. Sometimes everyone else starts that way, too. Hour by hour their voices get louder and louder. Mine does not.  They hush to hear me speak. More time goes by and their voices are even louder and mine is silenced with their noise. My voice gets louder.  My patience gets [...]

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This Mothering Thing Is Tough

August 1, 2012

I wonder if I had just let Mesa quit derby when she fell hard that first practice and wanted to leave.  We would never know how good she is at it or how much she loves it.  As a parent, I think we need to push them sometimes.  I don’t often do that.  I’m too [...]

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Messy

April 18, 2012

Right now I’m sitting on the living room eating a grilled cheese sandwich.  The kids have already finished their lunch and discussed Proverbs 1 together.  I usually eat lunch with them, but today I just needed a break- some quiet time. I haven’t been blogging often. I could offer excuses like I’ve been spending time with the [...]

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Learning To Say No

October 24, 2011

If there is one thing I need to work on more than anything else, it’s learning to say no–  No to things that take me out of the house, no to having more kids in the house, and no to things that take the kids out of the house any more than they already are. [...]

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