A Thousand Goodbyes: Watching My Baby Grow Up So Fast
Watching my baby grow up so fast, I face a thousand goodbyes. Every day, my baby leaves behind a trail
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Curiosity Journal: November 9, 2011
Each Wednesday I’m recording a Curiosity Journal to recap the past week. Tag words are: reading, playing, learning, reacting and
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A Better Way
My son offered to sweep the kitchen floor. Though tall enough to hold a full-sized broom normally, he instead gripped
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Old, Calloused Heart
One evening when my kids were little, I was flipping through TV stations and landed on a Christian channel. I
Thirteen
The girl in this photo has just about finished reading a 658-page book about HTML and CSS that she requested
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Tuning In and Out
Yesterday at High Calling Blogs, Michelle of Graceful posted a story about how she was caught fake-listening to her son.
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This or That?
My son was humming a tune when he walked past me. I was seated at the kitchen table, flipping through
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My Father’s Gifts
In the 1940s, someone told my dad, “If you learn to operate a Linotype*, you’ll never be out of work!”
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When "Watch Me, Mama" Gives Way to Individuation
My 14-year-old daughter had a friend over to spend the night last weekend. Due to scheduling conflicts, the girl, a
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Learning to Pray Like a Child
As steam wafted from the bowl of macaroni and cheese, our son would pray.Quite young at the time, maybe four
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Time for Yes
Throughout spring, my kids would come to me with requests to join their friends on outings such as sleepovers, birthday
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Ten Random Things I Haven't Mentioned
Sometimes my posts don’t reflect my daily life.It’s not that I’m hiding anything; it’s just that I sometimes don’t take
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Boy Meets Bag
A couple of years ago the kids and I were looking through the purses and bags at Goodwill, and our
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Celebrating My Writer-Mom
My mom worked as the editor of our local newspaper, covering news all over the county. If a reporter couldn’t