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Books read in 2017: my favorites
Y’all already know I love books. I love my library, too. Our library — and used library book sales (just $1 each!) — have been the source of most of this year’s reading. I like using goodreads to keep up with everything I’ve read and to maintain my big ol’ ongoing to-read list. I can…
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Life lately: December update
“When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things – not the great occasions – give off the greatest glow of happiness.” ~ Bob Hope Y’all. I live in a town that hosts a gingerbread beach house contest. How cute is that?! The local fire department entered the contest, too, and won…
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Setting goals for the new year
Did you have yourself a merry little Christmas? We had a nice but low-key day. My biggest gift, literally, was the baby elephant my mom gave me. How fun is that!? Her name is Esampu (the elephant, not my mom), and no, I can’t bring her to live in my backyard, but I will be…
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Adopting a teen: 8 years later
As of last Sunday, it has been eight years since the day we finalized Lindsey’s adoption. In the courtroom on Lindsey’s adoption day, 2009: Eight years. In many ways, that feels like a lifetime ago. I look at that picture and I can hardly remember who we were then. Some of you have been reading…
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6 things making me happy right now
It doesn’t take much to make me happy, really. I have a few requirements: sleep; tea; a little sunshine, or if it’s a cloudy/rainy day, more sleep. Plus good workouts, and snippets of quiet whenever I can get them. But sometimes little things make me extra-happy. So I’m sharing a few of my current happy-making…
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Life lately: November 2017
“This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It’s knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.” ~Mitch Albom I love this photo of our biggest and littlest in the family: Uncle Brandon and little Greyson….