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on December 10, 2009

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She Walks in Darkness...and Chooses Light

This girl here has been my girl's bestie since they were giggly girls in pigtails reading Laura Ingalls Wilder side by side. This week we took it a step further; we headed into the frontier. We talked about Laura and her daughter as we hiked. We also talked about Indians, black bears, tornadoes, the differences of growing up in the 70s, 80's and 90s, and Monte Cristo sandwiches. And we checked for ticks in each other's unbraided hair. Speaking of checking one's daughter's hair for ticks...Keisha will readily tell you she never wanted to be a mother and, as a millennial, tell you in the same breath: "Don't judge me!" Ye t here she is, pregnant with numbers three and four (five and six if you count her miscarriages). And she is living between darkness and light. This trip was not only a Mother-Daughter vacation into the stillness, for her it was a chance to take her two baby boys on a little hiking adventure...together. Collin will not reme...

15 Minutes of Advent & a Giveaway

{Scroll below to see how to enter this Advent Giveaway}... * * * * * In honor of the new liturgical year soon beginning and the hum of Advent in the air, I wanted to offer one of you a special something. Part of it are the extra printouts for Christmas Comfort for Moms which was offered a few years ago at Hillside Education. What is it? "This Christmas Comfort for Moms is not a study or a curriculum guide. It is a reflective time for you to break away from your other multitude of wonderful, life-giving plans and embrace the holiday season, reclaim the peace and joy that God desires for all wives and mothers this time of year. Hopefully, it will give you the motivation to draw richer meaning out of the other riches you find sprinkled around the Internet. As I have espoused in A Picture Perfect Childhood , sometimes we only need to capture 15-minutes to reclaim our vision of who we are called to serve and what we are called to do." The real intent is ...

My Favorite Child is...

I suspect my children will descend upon me after reading this and smirk about how "Mom can turn anything into a blog post." I wish they would see how little I have blogged lately because I'm too busy trying to prove to them individually that they are each my favorite. ;-) And that's a paradoxical statement all it's own. My oldest child (and perhaps it's the ritual of the oldest child to do so) is quick to boast that he is the favorite. "I'm the favorite, right, Mom?" is said more as a statement than a question. And a part of me feels that the younger siblings feel that he is because they've heard him say it all his life and I honestly don't know how to remedy this. Chances are they ignore his oldest child self-assurance. So I'm going to go public here and officially reveal which of my children is my favorite. ;-) * * * * * My Favorite Child – by Erma B...

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