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How a Stay-at-Home Mom Can Change the World
I saw them walk into the church one Sunday, all five of them, the boys in their long pants and button-up shirts and the girls in their dresses, heads ducked low. They’d just lost their mother to a...
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Do I Love My Kids More Than I Love Jesus?
via Worth James Goddard on flickr A tiny casket lowered into the sullen dirt and the sky, swollen with grief. The parents stood to the side, watching their baby girl being buried in a box and my scarf...
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How You Can Give a Home to Abandoned Babies
I’m kneeling on the carpet in front of the wood stove, praying into the wood chips and the ash, like I do many nights now when my family falls asleep. It’s been a month since I walked the slums of...
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How to Write Books with Babies In Your Lap (Giveaway)
You don’t. You don’t write books with babies in your lap, you don’t even check your email because four boys are honking your nose and pulling at your hair and coffee spills all over the overdue bills...
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Learning to Love Yourself Just as God Made You
via Amelia Fletcher Photography I’ve struggled with mirrors my whole life. I’m a former anorexic, and mirrors have been the bane of my existence. And not because I don’t necessarily think I’m pretty,...
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Why I’m Glad I Was Homeschooled
The smell of ancient paper still makes me want to sob, the way spines line up like soldiers on the wooden shelves of small-town libraries. I know they would defend me if they could, those armies of...
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Atlas Girl {memoir giveaway}
The smell of my hands reminds me of Africa. Of mangoes mashed, of Mum feeding me, and my brother too, and now, I’m feeding her, and she doesn’t open her mouth when I ask her to. The sky is pretty,...
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The Hidden Years of Being a Stay-At-Home Mom (Giveaway!)
We were in a garden of peonies, bursting pink and rose and ivory on dozens of bushes and the air smelled like my grandmother’s perfume. I was leaning over the blossoms even as my three-year-old...
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The #ILoveYouChallenge for Moms
via Noah Friebel on flickr It’s so much easier to be a good mother when your kids are sleeping. I walked into my sons’ room, to their bunk-beds piled high with blankets and Thomas the Train books,...
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Shop Locally. Impact Globally. (BIG Giveaway!)
photo by Allyn Lyttle of World Help Organization by Allyn Lyttle of WHO by Allyn Lyttle of WHO by Allyn Lyttle of WHO by Allyn Lyttle of WHO (*Please note, friends: This post is long. But, would you...
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The Day I Became THAT Mom
Many of my friends are 10 years younger than me with no church background. I worked with Young Life for five years and these kids now have kids and recently, I piled my boys into a van with a gift bag...
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How to Raise Thanksgiving Children
The toaster is broken. The washing machine gets stuck on every cycle so I have to manually move it to the next or it will just soak, or spin, forever. The dryer isn’t drying. I turn it on for two...
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