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Grass Day 4: Rainy Weekend
The forecast for this weekend is rain. Normally I would be bummed about this. I love a good sunny weekend. And the potty training is defnitely benefitted from the Peanut running around the backyard...
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If I can’t win…
Today, the technology that I was using in my classroom refused to participate and my students almost got a lesson on “colorful language in context.” I stayed home from church yesterday. This was after...
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The parable of the popcorn (thrower)
One day a mother was making popcorn just because she thought it would be fun. But she spoke too quickly and out of turn. She suggested said popcorn as a snack before the not-yet-two-year-old was...
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Trayvon Martin and Identifying My Own Racist Thoughts.
In my first weeks of my first year of teaching, when I was still adjusting to being the only white lady in the room, I asked the kids to get out a pencil. A boy in front, so dark that the students...
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Accidental Communion
Lately life has been coming at my family like the waves in the ocean. Even the coming up for air is exhausting. You can see it on our worn faces, can hear the gasping in our voices. Those waves have...
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The Younger Siblings Baby Book
The best way for me to describe my relationship with my sisters while growing up is this story. In pre-school we were talking about heroes or bravery or something. Anyway, I told my teacher about how...
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The Princess Problem, Officially Solved!
Perhaps I am thinking a little too far ahead on this one. The Peanut has yet to reach her second birthday, and the only thing the Rooster currently wants to do with sparkly pink shoes is gnaw on them....
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When I am desperate, God is till enough
It got a little dark around these parts on Wednesday. I have the strong desire to tell you that when my sister therapized me she pointed out my nature to catastrophize things and then make some self...
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To the Peanut on her second birthday
Dear Peanut, I am having trouble believing that it has been two years since we got our first glimpse at your peach-fuzz covered head. It just doesn’t seem that long. At the same time I am having...
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What I really want for Mother’s Day
The Lord has been confronting me a lot these day with self-sacrifice. I’m not going to lie, it isn’t the most exciting lesson I have ever learned. It is daily and tedious, and can sometimes even be...
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