Three months ago one of my college roommates (and one of my dearest friends) had a beautiful baby girl named Victoria. It was fun to be pregnant at the same time as she was. She ran a marathon in her second or third trimester. She swam in the water. In Maine. In a wetsuit. And [...]
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Adventure. In real life, it’s not what people like to think it is. I look online, and see people embracing their dreams. People who look inside themselves to “follow their bliss” and go camel trekking in the Sinai desert. And they somehow forget to remember to include God in what their dreams could be (or [...]
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Remember when I wrote that I prayed for some gifts from Heavenly Father for Christmas? Well, they didn’t come on Christmas Day. I wasn’t really expecting them to. When I talked to my daughter about my experience with Heavenly Father, she informed me that they would all probably arrive before April 6th, as that is [...]
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I want to write a love letter. I’ve never really wanted to write one before–not really. I’ve always been massively intimidated by that art form, as I feel it comes far too close to the realm of poetry and while my heart of hearts aspires to be poetic, I have never felt equal to the [...]
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Sometimes I get to offer up what I call a wish prayer. These are the prayers that feel more like wishes and they appeal very much to my romantic sensibilities, and I especially like them because they make me feel like a princess who has a King for a Father, and that He cares very [...]
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Life is good to me. Especially when I get to use it like a mirror, showing a true reflection of who I really am. Not who I wish I were. Not who other people think I am. Just me. Kind of like my full-length mirror in the bathroom. There I am in all my imperfection [...]
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Summer has come and gone, and I have been sitting in a rocking chair with a baby in my arms listening to the wind in the birch leaves and contemplating how beautiful life really is. And, even when it’s a Jonah Day, it usually only lasts for a day. And I am really lucky. Blessed [...]
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I have a really hard time remembering things. Most of my thirty-nine summers have passed into the watercolors of my mind–I remember hues, smells, sounds–bits and pieces–but they are all jumbled together into a cacophony of moments that have blended indistinctly. There is only one summer that I can say is truly vivid. That summer [...]
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I am participating in Women in the Scriptures Five Things For Friday Blog Hop! I made it through the Ides of March all in one piece (well, mostly!), and having survived, would like to dedicate this edition to inspirational messages. And things. I am not sure how this will work out, but I will give [...]
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Homemade Sunscreen Lotion Bars via Homemade Mommy
16 Food Bars for Parties- floats bar, potato bar, cookie bar, smores bar, cocoa bar, Candy table, nacho bar, pasta bar, etc
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mason's spina bifida journal
earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal
chocolate on my cranium
goodness matters
thoughts from the hearth
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