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How I Found Mr. Right

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  Disclaimer: This is a long post. I never write posts this long. But I PROMISE - it's worth View Post

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Happy Birthday Ty

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Dear Ty,My mom always said you'll wonder how you could love the second kid as much, and then you do. View Post

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worry, and heaven, and C.S. Lewis

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There are things that become incredibly relevant when you are a mom, things that didn't mean as much View Post

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ramblings from the deep end

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First, I want to answer the obvious question here, the one I am getting all those comments about. View Post

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today

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Aren't faults so much easier to see in junior high kids? The insecurity. The desperate throwing the View Post

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why I hate pears

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I owe some of you an apology. Well, probably most of you, for some reason or another, but the ones View Post

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To Ty

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Ty:One day when you read this blog, you'll wonder where I was for the first year of your life. Then View Post

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a blink of time

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When we were in high school, my sisters and I babysat for a wonderful family. Two families View Post

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Dear Steven Curtis Chapman

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Dear Steven.Hi. We've known each other for a long time. We go way back. You probably remember that View Post

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literary analysis (are you excited!!?)

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Today I saw Ellen, a wonderful lady I know, in the Harris Teeter. At the end of the conversation she View Post

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Sam on heaven

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It's hard for me to think about this conversation without getting emotional. Truly, it's kind of View Post

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worries, culture, and updates

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Where to start? I've received so many emails and phone calls demanding updates on my "no worries" View Post

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before 30

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You have probably heard of this thing where people list 30 things they want to do before they turn View Post

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funny

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There has been a lot of laughing in our house recently. Also, whining. And a good bit of screaming. View Post

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home organizing

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My family makes fun of me for a few reasons. I am going to assume that it is because they love me. View Post

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the lion in me

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Are you familiar with the animal personality test? I, who am obsessed with personality tests, find View Post

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For future parents

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Someone recently reminded me of the school project where kids carry around a plastic baby that View Post

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Notes from the Underground

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You secret English majors out there probably realize I stole my title from Dostoevsky. Thought it View Post

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Happy Birthday Sam

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Among my many regrets of parenting, perhaps the biggest (although most superficial) is what a View Post

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The Velveeteen Samule

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My parents tell the story over and over about how they left my stuffed lamb (or rather, unstuffed, View Post

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No shortcuts

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I don't really think of myself as a cheater, or lazy. And truth be told, those aren't my weaknesses View Post

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I am no Corrie ten Boom…

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...And I have a broken cell phone to prove it. I will explain that in a minute. But first, it is View Post

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help wanted :-)

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First of all, a few notes. One. I am now completely, utterly confident that people who bring meals View Post

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The jogger, the Westin, baby Ty and me

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We welcomed Ty David into the world 2 1/2 weeks ago. He is healthy, sweet, and the spitting image of View Post

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Raising Boys :)

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It's different than I thought.I'm a caddie, a quarterback, a lineman, and a pitcher. I'm the stalker View Post

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Tailor-made troubles and hand-picked kids

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Do you know who Joni Erikson Tada is? My mom made us watch her bio video when we were kids, and View Post

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my favorite song

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Isn't it funny some of the moments that you remember exactly? For the life of us neither Todd nor I View Post

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Bye Bye Milk

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Poor little Ty. Not even out of the womb and his chances of enjoying a bite of an ice cream cone View Post

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