Tag: family relationships
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The Holiday Rush
December 22th, THREE more days until Christmas, and I am feeling beat down. Where did all the holiday cheer go? The anticipation and excitement has been lost in the non stop, never ending holiday list of gift wrapping, present shopping, cookie baking, card giving, light watching, christmas decorating, friend gatherings, and all the other December…
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The Battle Belongs to the Lord. 1 Samuel 17:47
I stood toe-to-toe with my son of 13 years and continued to say the same sentence in different ways as I responded to his angry, demanding words, often bitter personal accusations in my face. He couldn’t reason in the moment of emotion so more words were fruitless. “Son, you are to finish that ___ before…
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Ideal vs Real
One of the things that I have loved about blogs over the last few years is looking at Fall or Christmas decor on other people’s house tours. I love to get ideas for decorating and have always had this desire to see what the holiday decor looks like in other homes. Is that weird? I…
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Intentional in the Family Battles
We have to talk about arguments! I realized a few years ago there had to be issues in my own immediate family that could vent ugliness at the worst possible times ahead. I was troubled by the latent sibling strife that occurred at my own parent’s death! So, at our very next family intentional…
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Life is better together
Fall is my favorite season of the year. There are so many reasons why fall is special. Think about it, the trees literally change colors!! You have green trees and then after a few cold days they are red, yellow, orange and golden. I know, I know it doesn’t happen very much here in “Socal”…
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Intentional In the Tension of Choice
What a wonderful feeling to sit down for a break and know some responsibility is done and done well! I just cleaned my whole house, something that for years has been a major accomplishment, but because it is an RV it only took 30 minutes! I have to say it is no less satisfying today…
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A Calming Presence… Response Ability (responsibility)
“Mom”, I hear the distress call from my granddaughters’ room and stop what I am doing to go assist in some little crisis. There stands my daughter in the middle of the room looking at me with the face of despair. I turn my head and standing in her crib, tears streaming, red faced, with…
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What Are Your Thoughts Hallie?
In an interview with granddaughter Hallie about her first week of school, I discover a key strategy to guide her through the “too hard” moments! Grammie: Hallie, when you were looking forward to your first day of school this year, what were you excited about? Hallie: I was excited about science! We looked at all of…
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Get Ready… Get Set… Go…
“Let’s just do it,” can be all we need to say to each other! Today we started blogging our story, this past week we just started the school year at home, September 1st we kicked off a Whole 30 eating plan as a family, and not one of those things were we really ready for!…