Category: family life
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One year ago, we met our teenage daughter
One year ago yesterday, we met Lindsey — or as Kathryn puts it, “looked into her eyeballs” — for the first time. Back then, we couldn’t share her real name or her show her face in photos. So I got creative in our 1st photo. There were so many emotions wrapped up in that day,…
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Birthday flowers, tea, & friends!
For at least the past three years, our daylilies have begun blooming exactly on my birthday. So even though roses are my birth flower, these daylilies are evidently my birth-day flower. I was saying all week that they’d start blooming on Wednesday, and they did. Kathryn noticed the blooms before I did, and was so…
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It’s My Birthday!
Thirty-[mumble] years ago today, I was born! I was a scrawny little thing, arriving a few weeks early, weighing a little over 5 1/2 pounds. Last month, one of our sermons at church was about the Titus 2 woman, and my pastor said he left it up to our Women’s Ministry to define what an…
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Practicing Gratitude
“To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything He has given us — and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence a gift of grace.” ~Thomas Merton Continuing my list of “one-thousand gifts”… #26) The Bible, and it’s availability…
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Dog Playing Poker (or Apples to Apples!)
We try to have family game nights every week. And sometimes, even the dog participates! While we were playing last night, I got up to get something, and Lacy came and sat in my place. I didn’t even have time to change any of my camera settings because our dog is infamous for disappearing as…