What I Don’t Do…

Thank you so much for letting me share my heart last week on “What I Do”. There was so much freedom in listing my priorities, and where God has me. Understanding my role and where things fit in, is so helpful in identifying where I can be used best, and what things to say “yes” …

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What I Do

I snuck onto the back patio yesterday while the boys were drawing and creating, and read a few quick chapters of this read I found a few weeks ago. And the chapter on the myth of “doing everything better” struck me especially hard.  The trap we get lured into of doing, doing, doing and spreading …

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The Messes I Make in This Beautiful Life

Yesterday was one of those long good days of motherhood. Brad was gone before the sun and not home until past the boys bedtime, which usually means I take the easy route for the day. I go into survival mode (which I know is probably making you single moms and moms where this is norm …

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Learning to Fly: Flight Lessons in Parenthood

Six and a half years into this parenting multiples journey, and we’re still finding our wings.  Most of the time it’s felt like a freefall.  There’s no instruction manual for raising quads, no practice kid to learn from, no long talks with your mom about how she handled four at once, no MOPS group for …

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Hit Me With Your Best Shot

So I planned on writing on continuing our marriage and dating series today, but my computer had a different agenda that consists of locking up every time I turn it on. Lovely. So after a morning of 8 shots, 12 pages of paper work, and 4 tear-free boys, we are calling it a day! Donuts …

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How Parenting is Like Doing a Plank

Have you ever tried doing a plank?  It’s a simple yet intense exercise that only last for a minute or so, but strengthens your entire core.  As I looked at this picture this morning, I couldn’t help but think about how parenting and planking (not the lying down game stunt) have so many similarities. Parenting …

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Twinsie Time

Brooks and Clark are finishing up a little “twinsie time” while Henry and Isaac are at my parents enjoying some 2 on 2 time as well. We’ve done this swap a handful of times now in a variety of combinations and it’s always a sweet time of benefiting from a little lighter load and stepping …

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1/3

This weekend it hit me that we are 1/3 through parenting these boys. ONE THIRD. And I know we aren’t ever truly done with parenting…but nevertheless, a bulk of the parenting years are behind us. We can undo or redo the past, but with 2/3 left we can resolve to learn from past mistakes and …

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