Just Say Yes

I know I am telling my age here, but . . . I grew up under Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” Campaign. It was the First Lady’s aim to teach school age children to say “no” to drugs. At times I felt that it was my parents’ mantra as well. No matter what I asked, […]

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10/04/2019

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Parenting

“There Was A Snail….”

“There was a snail called Herbert, who often got in trouble. Forgetting that he was a snail, he did things on the double. He’d crash through spider webs, with crickets he’d collide. ‘Till one day, Herbert’s father sat his speeding son aside –  ‘Have patience, have patience, don’t be in such a hurry.  When you […]

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9/23/2019

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Little Lessons

“More Grace”

Earlier this week, I posted about what God was teaching me through the position of the toilet seat in our master bath. (If you missed it, here’s the link: Tattling On Him.) This morning, as I read the devotion in “New Morning Mercies” by Paul David Tripp, I saw exactly the role of sin and the […]

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9/14/2019

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My Theology

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Tattling on Him

When we first married, he never did this and I was so impressed. After all, he had been raised with 2 brothers and no sisters. Later in our marriage, it only happened occasionally. It was usually when he was distracted by stress or just simply busy. Recently however, I have come to accept that he […]

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Writing at Starbucks

This is a first. I am literally blogging from Starbucks. I feel “cool” and “hip” and some other feelings that I am not used to feeling. Ask my teenager, I am sure she would not use the above words to describe her “old” mom. I am sipping a drink I can pronounce, but I have […]

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The Blessed Dreaded Week

I have dreaded this week for a long time. My last born, my baby starts kindergarten. With the way God spaced out my “babies” this is the first time in 16 years that I have not had a little at home with me. My “present tense” is definitely changing. Eliza has been my sidekick for […]