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When My Children’s Opinion Matters

November 15, 2019

Parenting: Giving Kids Dignity

Quick story: I signed one of my children up to volunteer at the annual Harvest Fair at our church. The fair fell on the same night the child wanted [...]

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Flip Phone or iPhone – The Power of Choice

November 1, 2019

Last week I made a decision to bid farewell to my flip phone. I am the proud (?) new owner of an iPhone 11 Pro. (I got the fanciest [...]

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How to Stop Blaming My Husband When the Kids Screw Up

October 25, 2019

When my kids screw up, it’s become a bit of a habit of mine to blame my husband. Allow me to explain… Last Friday morning I slept through my [...]

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The Blob – 2 Things I Need to Fight the Demands of Motherhood

October 18, 2019

Since pausing my professional photography business in March, the children’s activity schedule has monopolized a startling amount of my waking hours. And of course, it’s not the time spent [...]

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A Friggin’ Break – Having Unrealistic Expectations Hurts Everyone

October 11, 2019

How much of my love is conditional? How do I respond to my family when I don’t feel like they’re contributing or behaving in a manner that I deem [...]

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Quit Taking It Personally – A Lesson Brought to You by Q-Tips

October 4, 2019

Have you ever heard the acronym for Q-TIP? Quit Taking It Personally Boy oh boy, these days I could use a whole case of those magic little wands of [...]

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Crappy Mom List – 5 Things I’m Never Gonna Change

September 27, 2019

As we know, I arguably spend waaaay too much time fine-shining my life. But this whole ‘focus on what’s working’ thing that I posted about in Open is really refreshing. [...]

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Willing – Not Stuffing My New Family Into an Old Pan

September 13, 2019

You’re likely familiar with “The Meatloaf Story”… A mom and daughter are cooking a meatloaf when the daughter asks, “Mom, why do you cut off each end of the [...]

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Honest Eating – How I Used Honesty as a Weapon

September 6, 2019

One thing I love to do at this time of year is to come up with my meal plan. So, the other day I pulled out a document I [...]

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Open – Looking at What’s Right Rather Than What’s Wrong

August 30, 2019

There’s a huge part of me that would love to be jumping back into the blog circuit in a blaze of glory, but I’m running out of steam, people. [...]

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Welcome to my blog turned podcast! Here you can listen or read about what’s on my mind as I try my best to recover from screaming at my kids and nagging the bejesus out my husband.

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Quit Taking It Personally – A Lesson Brought to You by Q-Tips

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Willing – Not Stuffing My New Family Into an Old Pan

Honest Eating – How I Used Honesty as a Weapon

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