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five finds friday (on a SATURDAY, featuring cute letters and free stuff)
Unscheduled. Awry. Shifted. Not as planned. Those are all the correct words to describe this week. Mostly stemming from car issues, nearly nothing that I thought was going to happen or scheduled to happen actually occurred as planned or anticipated. All. Week. Long. Some days my car would start. Some days it would not. Some days I spent trying…
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Meet Bri: A Young Living Q&A
I told you guys a few weeks ago that I was delving into the world of essential oils in a kind of professional way. (Sort of how I do everything – kind of.) I’m entering Young Living like I enter a swimming pool – I’m a toe dipper. A wade in first and then take forever to finally dunk…
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weekend gone awry, right on schedule
The kids are watching Cars Three and I don’t even know how we justify THREE movies about cars that can talk and have feelings and relationships. But then again, I think they’re sort of cute movies. So. You know. Whatever. (I’m so grateful that (for now) my two teenagers and one nearly teen will happily watch a cartoon with…
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Five Finds Friday (bad lip reading, maggie weaves, piper feeds a calf)
I had no mental space this week for reading Charles Martin novels because I exhausted all of my emotional energy on watching the last two episodes of This Is Us. Those writers. They are so talented. I also watched my first ever Super Bowl and turns out, it was kind of fun. Sausage cheese dip and good company help…
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to be a parent
I don’t have to tell you guys – parenting is hard hard hard work. A single day can hold so much, can’t it? There’s the subtle disrespect and the blatant type too. The kid who helps his sister do the chores and the same kid who cries later because his sister won’t share her flashlight. The continual…
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It’s Like A Road Map to Cooking With a Plethora of Detours: Supper of the Lamb Book Review
If not for it being “assigned” as a Book Club choice, I would probably have never heard of it. The Supper of the Lamb. I don’t even know what category it falls under. Cookbook? Culinary read? (Is that a category?) Memoir? It’s parts all of the above. And more. A little parenting advice. Memoir-ish. A picture…
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Five Finds Friday (odd products, good products, a faithful God and a friend who’s doing great things)
Hi February. Nice to see you. Let’s be friends. funny The internet brings us both wonder and horror. Sometimes at the same moment. What. Is. This? fashionable I’m not a big make up wearing kind of human. (Mascara feels like really “going all out” to me.) I have a daughter, however, who is…
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aimless. arbitrary. disconnected. Today’s Thoughts.
Sometimes when my friend Brittani cuts my hair, she straightens it afterwards. In regular life, I can all but guarantee that I will never do such a thing on my own. I do own a hair dryer because Hannah bought me one a few winters ago when my pipes froze and we needed to try to thaw them out.…
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Inside Out & Back Again: A Book Club Book Review
Reading books with my kids is one of my simplest joys. Years ago I started a Mother-Daughter Book Club with my older girls. Since then Piper Finn has been begging for her turn at a Book Club. We’ve been meeting for several books now and this week we gathered again to discuss the beautiful story in Inside Out &…
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Visual Latin: A Review
Teaching a foreign language to my children is simply not going to happen from my skill set. We’ve played around a little with a program called DuoLingo that helps to teach Spanish, plus a handful of other languages you might prefer. The kids like it – it’s a free online program. It’s just an introduction sort of situation, not a…
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before the promises fulfilled: life in the regular
Sometimes I come across words like these: Repay the years the locusts have eaten. Beauty from ashes. Like a phoenix rising. All the right ideas. The symbolism. The hope. But (thus far) none of the follow through. I have yet to see the descendants, numbers greater than the stars. I’m no longer sitting in the ashes, although the smell…
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Five Finds Friday (a funny video and my take on The Greatest Showman)
Hey-o. Friday it is. Short days – long week, am I right? I maybe made it worse on myself by catching up on This Is Us on two different nights so I was past my bedtime twice this week. (Past my bedtime. Who am I kidding? I don’t even have an assigned bedtime and that’s a real problem.) …
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Me and Young Living: At the Beginning
So. Essential oils. I’ve been learning slowly about the benefits and the uses of essential oils for years. A friend of mine calls it voodoo magic and that makes me laugh. She and I both joke about that title and we both seem to pair skepticism along with a willingness to give it a go. That and more than…
