Tag: education
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God is just cool! (August 26, 2011)
He answered my prayer today. I know, God does that all the time. But today I was trying to figure out how to manage a particular situation: call the person, invite them over, invite myself over, write a note, what to do? It wasn’t an easy situation. A confrontation of sorts, bringing an offense to…
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His & Hers (July 21, 2011)
Do you have jobs in your marriage that are his/hers? Our neighbors have an agreement with the outside work: she mows, he landscapes. No questions. He does NOT mow. Every marriage has those dividing lines with cooking and cleaning, bathing kids and bedtime prayers, and who drives to family events. Sometimes the dividing lines are…
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Conjunctivitis = $$ (July 20, 2011)
Ever tried to put drops in the eye of a 4yo pink eye? Back in March, our 4yo had pink eye, also known as conjunctivitis. It’s a very contagious infection, which my sweet husband had the bad fortune to get. After that, it was my turn. Bummer! Because there are so many eye infections out…
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Parmesan Cheese (July 19, 2011)
It was 103 degrees today. In the shade. The power went out. It came back on. Praise God!! There are a plethora of topics swimming through my mind of what to resume my blogging about. After all, I’m supposed to be logging my journey to find some order in my life. We saw fireworks that…
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Not Really Hating My Life (July 15, 2011)
Remember the blog about hating my life? In it, I said that I didn’t really hate my life, but I didn’t like the mom that I was within my life. The Ultimate Blog Challenge includes the challenge to visit the blogs of others and see what they are saying and doing. After posting a comment…
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Rain Rain Go Away (July 15, 2011)
It started raining around 9 am, maybe a little before that. Two fast and furious storms came through town from then until about 1 pm. Around 1:50 I piled two littles into the car and started backing out of the garage. It was time to pick J up from his library job. I didn’t get…
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Brain Bake (July 13, 2011)
Tennis camp. No shade. Lots of water. Doesn’t seem like enough. Kids loving the sport. Baby chases the balls around. This is quite nice. Till we get home. Despite the water, the baseball hats, the visors, the apples, the pluots, and the regular breaks, the sun is melting my children’s brains. It takes so much…
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Bible Study (busy mom style) – Part 4 (July 12, 2011)
[Reading time 1-2 minutes] Thought I should close this topic with one more post. Bible study is not something we do because it gets us into heaven. It’s not something we should do to look or feel Christian to ourselves or others. Bible study is just a term our culture has applied to a scriptural instruction…
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Top 3 Reasons Why This Week is Groovy (July 14, 2011)
{Reading time 1-2 minutes} This is a one groovy week! Truly, it is. A great week. It actually feels like summer. The sun is out, then a little cloudy, then some rain, but mostly in the evenings. So the garden is growing, I’m not paying to water it (I’m also not weeding it…last year for…
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Bible Study (busy mom style) – Part 3 (July 11, 2011)
[Reading time 1-2 minutes] Today I give you the third suggestion in quality Bible study methods for busy moms. It’s hard to cultivate our relationship with God while mothering preschoolers. Well, shucks, it’s hard to cultivate our relationship with God with preteens, teenagers, grown kids or no kids. We live in a crazy busy world…
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Bible Study (busy mom style) – Part 2 (July 10, 2011)
[Reading time 1-2 minutes] We’re talking about Bible studies. In a talk given to a MOPS group about how to find and cultivate our relationship with God while mothering the preschool years, I made three suggestions of how to have a rich Bible study. Today I’ll share suggestion #2. It’s kind of silly, but it…
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Bible Study (busy mom style) – Part 1 (July 9, 2011)
Some people are really good at doing Bible studies. They pick a study and diligently work on it through each day at a regular time. I love those people. I used to be those people. Then 5 children moved into my house. And I joined another group of people. This new group doesn’t have a…