His Grace Is More Than Enough, When I’m Not Enough

Summer is threatening to leave us soon.  School supplies, pool closings, fall sports being practiced on any open field, are constant reminders that it will escape us once again. We’ll carefully pack up our five-year-old summer memories, and voyage into a new adventure soon. Change is hard, necessary, and unfamiliar, yet we’ll travel there together. …

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7 Pinterest Life Hacks Worth Trying

I love when the most brilliant things in life are SIMPLE.  Often the things that are life-saving, sanity-saving, and time-saving are those genius ideas that leave you thinking, “Why didn’t I come up with that?”  Here are 7 of My Favorite Life Hacks and Sanity Savers that I’ve Found Through Pinterest That Are Worth Trying: …

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How I’m Forcing Myself Into Becoming a Morning Person

Mornings and I do not get along.  We’ve had this dysfunctional relationship for quite sometime.  I feel beat up, cannot shake the tiredness, and have to talk and negotiate my way out from under the covers every single morning. My sleep meter never gets filled, and I pout about it through the morning routine. My …

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Savoring Motherhood

It’s so easy to get caught up in the work of motherhood that we forget the joy of mothering, isn’t it? The chaos, the distractions, the immediate, the emergencies, the noise, the load… There are fires to be put out, check lists to cross, tasks that need attention. Hurry. Frazzle. Rush. And in the bustle …

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Rookie Runners

We have four more runners in our house.  After and during Brad’s mini-marathon training, they’ve been running their hearts out: 3 runs around the block on Sunday, laps around the outside of the house, sprints from one end of the house to another.  {If you can’t tell, they look up to their daddy intensely!} We …

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5 Things I’ve Learned as a Boy Mom

I’ll never forget laying on the examining table as an ultrasound revealed that I was carrying four BOYS.  It seemed foreign, surreal, and overwhelming to process. I never imagined what a houseful of boys looked like. Hadn’t the rarity and shock of being pregnant with four at the same time been enough to wrap my …

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The Not So Elaborate Days…

  I can feel it slipping – these days of sunshine and simplicity. Days of neglecting some of the to-do’s for the gifts in front of me… Days of constant noise and chatter… Days of make believe, laughter, togetherness, and play… Days of childhood that can be cherished a little longer… It’s fleeting at an …

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Four Future IU Candy Stripers?

Kentucky Wildcats are partying as National Champions, but IU Basketball is in my blood.  I grew up watching the candy striped warm-up pants on our Zenith color television waving my pom poms in front of the screen (much to my dad and brothers’ annoyance), and reciting player names since I could talk. This weekend our …

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