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Leaving is Not an Option…This Family is About Staying
There is something profoundly painful about a child saying they want to leave. It cuts to the core. I know that when my children say things like, “I’ll just go live with Dad,” or “I’ll just go live with insert name” or even “I want a different mommy,” it’s more about being frustrated than actually…
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Where Did She Go?
My daughter Elizabeth was complaining the other night at bedtime about a bunch of stuff. I said, “Let’s pray about it. To which she replied with a wail, “But that never works! I pray and God doesn’t answer.” Oh dear! I thought. I put my hand gently on her forehead and rubbed her eyebrow with…
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Do You Welcome Inconvenience?….me neither.
Sometimes being a single mom is so inconvenient. The other night – a school night – when I should have been rocking little ones to sleep, we were just finding our seats at the varsity basketball game where my oldest daughter was cheering. I love watching my daughter cheer…she rocks at it! But it’s just no…
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Hope in the New Year
Happy 2013! I saw something funny online yesterday. It said, “My New Year’s resolution is to remember to write 2013.” Wouldn’t it be nice if that was all that we needed to resolve to do? I have so much I want to change about my life that I shudder to think what my resolution list would…
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Single Mom Sorting – And I Don’t Mean the Laundry
One of the most common aspects of my day is laundry! May I be candid for a moment? I dislike it…immensely. There is just so much of it. Always. I’ve written about it before (Tripping Over Baskets). Today, I have another spin on it. Last week I told my oldest daughter that it was her…
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All You Need to Do is Just…
Recently one of my dearest friends called to tell me she had my next blog topic. She’d been at a women’s Bible study where they were discussing their crazy busy lives. After the moms in the group had lamented their situations, one of the ladies shared her “simple” solution which began with the phrase, “All…
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Lovin’ Mommy and Apple Pie
“You should like to obey your mommy as much as apple pie.” As I begin writing I’m not sure whether I should focus on the fact that I say the dumbest things sometimes or the spiritual implications that sentence has on my life. Although I’m thinking there will be ample opportunities for me to write…
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Ranting and Resting
Dear Friends, I really want to share the following blog with you all not because it is so well-written or anything, but because I believe that it’s where so many of us, particularly single parents, find ourselves sometimes. It isn’t pretty at first, but God, as usual, used my time typing on these keys to…
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Single Parenting by THE BOOK
Recently a sweet friend gave me a parenting book. Thankfully I’m at a good place to receive it…I know I’m in over my head! Single parenting five children is daunting, difficult, and downright exhausting. There was a time when I’d have been appalled that someone thought I might need any professional assistance with my parenting. …
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