Have you ever noticed that there tends to be a lot of stress around the idea of Christmas?  I don’t mean shopping, gifting and falling deeply into debt…. I mean, surrounding the whole idea of Christmas.  I can understand non-Christians declining to celebrate the birth of the Christian Messiah, but there is a whole other [...]

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Every year I wonder, what will happen this year??  Last year, I remember thinking, “I’m going to be a mom!  I’ll give birth.  Hopefully I’ll have another book accepted…” This year, there is nothing so obvious as a pregnancy to give me a hint as to what will go down.  I’m thinking my son will [...]

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If you recall, earlier I was having some motherly panic attacks around the idea of preaching.  Well, yesterday (Sabbath morning) we had our phone turned off, as we normally do.  We turn it off Friday evening so that we can have an uninterrupted family evening.  So when we were about to leave for church, I [...]

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I have been rejected.  Yes, it’s true!  You’d think I’d be used to this by now, but it always stings a little, especially when it is a fully completed novel that took months of research and writing.  I can’t help but think of all that work that went into it!  I also can’t help but [...]

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Reading an internet friend’s blog, I was inspired by her post.  She wrote about regrets, and if you could change one thing, what would it be? I’m not sure what I would change.  I think I would have been more patient in the beginning of my marriage.  I would have been gentler with my parents when I sent [...]

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My son has started making strange!  I’m thrilled!  Why?  Because he was always a baby who really didn’t care too much who cuddled him.  He had absolutely no loyalty when it came to trying to nurse with pretty much anyone, men or women.  He’d just turn that little face towards the chest of literally anyone [...]

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Christmas is coming up, and for the first time, I am hosting Christmas Eve.  This is a big deal, if you didn’t know, since I am the youngest sibling, and therefore NEVER host anything!  It’s the duty of the youngest to go to the designated Christmas location for festivities.  This year, however, I managed to [...]

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