Today has been one of those days.  Everything I touched I either dropped or banged.  Jr was fussy and wanting to be on my hip constantly or he would scream.  I don’t mean squawk, I mean scream, the kind that starts with a red face, a square mouth and silence until he took his first [...]

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I have reached my quota of colds for this season.  The baby and I are sick, yet again.  So we are staying in.  While I stare slighly blearily at the computer screen, the munchkin is finally taking a nap after fighting it for an hour, and I have some time to myself.  Today is going [...]

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Sometimes dealing with family can be exhausting.  Families are unique bunches of people.  Every family has a dynamic of its own, a way to deal with things, a way to interact.  Some confront.  Some avoid.  Some lie.  Some are brutally honest.  But nothing is set in stone!  People get married, have babies, pass away, get divorced…  [...]

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I have decided to seriously try my hand at a kids’ book.  I have mentioned this before, but I have since come to a few more realizations.  The first, is that the Adventist presses I intend to submit to may not have the same view point on children’s literature that I do.  The second, is that [...]

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My son was given a little book called “I Am Blessed,” by Grace Maccarone.  It’s about a little boy who looks around him all day long and thinks of the ways he is “blessed.”  Blessed is a term that Christians use to mean, “fortunate because God does good things for us.”  So basicly, it is [...]

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I’m having a maternal freak out.  I’ve decided to accept the fact that I have these, and just go with it.  They really can’t be helped.  I know that they are seldom logical, which possibly saves me from being completely insane, but the hormones, you know… Thinking about preaching Sabbath, at first I was looking [...]

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I love preaching.  That might sound strange.  I’m pretty sure not many people make that claim, but I really do enjoy preaching.  Putting together a sermon is much like writing an article.  Once you’ve thought it through and made your argument, you pretty much have a sermon.  My father was a minister while I was [...]

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