Do you ever accidentally buy into the notion that you are the captain of your own ship? I honestly thought I was immune to that heresy, knowing full well that God is my creator. Yet I’ve found myself falling right into that trap. Those little twinges that sneak up when I’m looking at the mess […]
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Last year I missed Autumn. It happened, just like it does every year, but I missed it. I was counting on the tell-tale vibrant colors to last long enough for me to really appreciate the season, but the cold came quickly, and the colors didn’t last long. This year, determined to wrap myself in fall,
Time is funny. There are days that fly by, leaving us feeling hurried along like a leaf in the wind, and there are days where we’re left wondering how we are going to fill the hours waiting for night. I feel like the former is true for parents of older children, and the latter describes
There are so many times that I feel as though I’m behind in my children’s education. With the passing of each year, I’m faced again with the new challenges that I thought, in my naiveté, that I would only be faced with once; tying shoes, counting to 100, pouring milk. Oh that our kids were
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The end of the school year always leaves me with two prominent feelings: guilt and motivation. I confess I was feeling more of the former than the latter these last few weeks, wondering if I did enough this year, wondering if my kids will remember anything at all by the time they lay
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