Category: family life
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Summer Plans {love my life}
Last week I read One Light Still Shines, told by the woman known to most of the world as “the shooter’s wife” in the 2006 Amish schoolhouse shooting. It wouldn’t seem so, but hers is an encouraging story of hope. God sustained her and she felt him promise not to “fix” things but to redeem…
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How to Parent your Introvert Child
Recently I shared some insight on how to be friends with an introvert, because I know being friends with us sometimes-quirky introverted folks can be challenging if you don’t “get” us. 😉 If merely being friends with an introvert can be tricky for an extrovert, then parenting an introvert kid can be downright perplexing! All…
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The Year I Learn to Garden
Many of my dad’s earliest and fondest memories were of time spent tending the garden with his grandfather. Gardening gave him a sense of connection: to his grandfather, to the earth, and to the Creator. As far back as I can remember, I saw him in the garden: tilling, hoeing, planting. Sometimes I helped, like…
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Understanding personality types changed my parenting
Reading Quiet last year was a major turning point in my understanding of my own introverted personality. I’ve long been interested in the subject of personality types, but it was only when I felt completely off my axis that I begin to realize this information was truly useful in my daily life! Every personality type…
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Dancing with Dad: an Anniversary Post
The day is February 28, 1998. My dad stands tall and proud, grinning in his tuxedo with polished cowboy boots. Since boots are made for jeans, he says he hopes they don’t make noise swishing in his tuxedo pants as we walk down the aisle. I show him my own boots hidden under my wedding…