I am on my hands and knees in the middle of the yard, gathering weeds on an early May evening– not pulling them, like a normal person would, but actually gathering them. I am going to make a spring refresher tea. I normally hate work like this. This is the kind of work that I […]
Today, we are in for a treat! Enjoy this piece from a very special guest writer, a sweet mom who is kinda close to my heart. Wild Little One The sand is soft and fine but just rough enough to have a satisfying texture. I grab a handful and let it slip slowly from my
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Along my driveway is this huge walnut tree. I tried to use tools to estimate its age, but the range is too great to be accurate. Having said that, I am getting estimates that start at around 165 to over 200 years old! How many horses and carriages, tractors and cars has it greeted down
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Motherhood, especially in the early years, is often made up of the same, long, repeating routine. You do the same things over and over, and everything you do is often undone right away! You sometimes don’t feel like you are making progress–just like painting dot after dot, most often with a lack of sleep that
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Human Development was one of my prerequisite classes for entrance into Nursing School, in which they try to teach you all the predictable stages that all humans must progress through if we actually ever as we mature. As a mother of 6, I threw out my college book about a month into our first baby.
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About this series: I spent about a year wrapping my mind around a new diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis. I have decided to basically cut and paste everything I wrote down while I was processing it all. Perhaps one other person who is going through uncertain waters will find comfort and peace through my sharing. This
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As soon as I found out that I might have MS, I had so many uncertainties storming around in my head. Was I going to be in a wheelchair in a year? Would I go blind? What if I cannot use the bathroom without help? Was I going to struggle with debilitating fatigue, or even
Who Do You Want to Be? Core Values are your navigation tool to get you to where you want to be. Who do you want to be? Your Core Values are your foundational drivers that keep you on the right route to becoming who you are supposed to be, even when you feel like you
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In my last post, I discussed how creating a set of Core Values for ourselves can help us make decisions that will help us live our lives to our fullest potential. Today I will share my process with you so you can see an example of how an average person might go about doing this.
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