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Mother’s Day for the ‘Other Mothers’

Mother’s Day for the ‘Other Mothers’

There are parents without carseats, diapers or pacifiers. Mothers who do not have bedtime rituals or middle of the night feedings. Mothers without hand-stamped necklaces or birthstone rings. Parents who no longer have children. These are the other mothers – the ones...

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State of Days & Heart

State of Days & Heart

You know, like a State of the Union address? Consider this my State of Days and Heart. 🙂 It's been five weeks since the last words were spoken in this space. In that time, our family has: Celebrated my Sam's fifth birthday with a Green Eggs and Ham gathering of...

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Christmas Will Come

Christmas Will Come

The boxes are piled shoulder-high throughout the basement, full of every single earthly possession we have. In the next three weeks there will be four preschool/church Christmas programs, my son will turn 5, a writing deadline will pass, Christmas Day will come and...

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The Only Way to Stay Above Water

The Only Way to Stay Above Water

It's here. The first day of December. It hasn't started to snow here in Minnesota yet, but I'm holding out hope for a white Christmas just the same and I made it snow on my blog. So there, weather. Today is a BIG day. It's the first of December. I'm over at...

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Major House Update!! {+ Other Fun Stuff}

Major House Update!! {+ Other Fun Stuff}

We did it. Seventeen months after initially listing our house, we moved into a new one of our very own. It has three bedrooms and three bathrooms, two fireplaces and two living areas, a formal dining room and a three-season porch, and five very happy people living...

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On a Blanket with what Really, Really Matters

On a Blanket with what Really, Really Matters

Last week our youngest child turned one. Her first year has been one of transition, change and interruption. It's been late nights and early mornings, dust and dishes, moving boxes and figuring out a new normal. Which kind of never came, besides regular crazy turning...

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Introducing… my First Hold-in-Your-Hands Book!

Introducing… my First Hold-in-Your-Hands Book!

Two years ago I wrote a book. I wrote A Moment of Christmas for the weary woman being crushed under the weight of Pinterest-pressure. The woman so exhausted she hasn’t read anything for herself in months or more. The woman desperate for connection with her own soul,...

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What We Can Do When Evil is Easier to See

What We Can Do When Evil is Easier to See

Twenty-seven years later, Jacob Wetterling has been found. The horrific details have been dredged out and pushed into the light, and collectively we begin again the grieving process of a boy most of us never met, but whom all of us mourned. He changed our Minnesotan...

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One for the Books

One for the Books

It's been a month for the books, friends. My calendar said July was going to roar in with a great 'whooooosh' and swoop out just as quickly, but bobbing along in its tide has still been a surprise. We spent our annual weekend at family camp and as usual, it was...

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