A friend of mine asked the other day, “what is the difference between choosing thankfulness or only being thankful when I feel like it.” Simple question, really. But crap. My thoughts were this: Choosing thankfulness is freaking hard, because I think I’m entitled to more. Ouch. I’m entitled to have a limitless grocery budget AND the newest style of ankle boots….
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QUIT ACTING LIKE THE DAY IS RUINED
I’m not sure how many of you live close to home or family. Or how many of you are transplants like me. Regardless, I know that it can be very hard to be away from family. This certainly kicked into high gear once we had the boys. The reality of only seeing grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins via Southwest Airlines,…
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HOW I ORGANIZED MY KIDS STUFF AND SAVED MY SANITY
Today’s post is really more of a selfish one. For almost the last year, our boys have shared a room. We can get into that later, but suffice it to say, it was not necessarily a well thought out move. And because of that, organization has been a pretty big issue. This is a fairly small room, with a rather…
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THE TRUTH ABOUT WHY BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS HURT
I read a little musing my husband had written years ago that I found on the computer. He called it “The Haunting” Cryptic, no? Essentially, it was about the people we once had our lives very intertwined with, but for various reasons, no more. A haunting would be when something would trigger a memory of one of these people….
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