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“Will You Let Your Children Meet Their Birthparents?”
Answer: Yes. If my children want to find and meet their birthparents, I will do what I can to make that happen. I realize there are risks involved—not so much with their physical safety, but more so...
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5 Myths of Adoption
Yesterday was Orphan Sunday, and my pastor was kind enough to ask me and Jon to share a bit about our adoption experience. But rather than just tell our story, we wanted to encourage others to adopt....
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What My Brain and Fox News Have in Common
In my quest to examine all-things-time this month, I’ve made a discovery: I exert an abundance of mental energy carrying around my to-do list. Not a paper to-do list. I carry it all in my brain. Thus,...
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Exposing Lies Moms Believe, Part 7: Good Moms Don’t Yell
This is yet, another one of my amazing Mom friends here to help me out with this series. What I love most about Stephanie is the way she approaches life with simplicity, practicality and humor. I get...
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Exposing Lies Moms Believe, Part 8: Perfect Mothers Raise Perfect Children...
Lisa Smith is my Sista from anotha Mista. Though we have never met in actual real-live-flesh, we have been on-line friends since the birth of both of our blogs (which is kinda how on-line friends do...
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Exposing Lies Moms Believe, Part 9: A Good Mom is a Great Homemaker
Meet Tyler. She crossed the great divide from “Blog Buddy” to “Real Life Friend” when I had the honor to meet her TWICE! Which is crazy because she lives in a foreign country (Canada). Because she has...
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Depth Through Discipline, Part 1: Solitude and Silence
How are the New Year’s Resolutions coming? I, for one, have a horrible track record of going through the painstaking process of setting meaningful and God-honoring annual goals, only to let them...
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Depth Through Discipline, Part 2: More Silence and Solitude
For Part One, Click Here If twenty-one years of marriage has taught me anything, it’s taught me how to communicate with my man. In a nutshell, here’s what I’ve learned thus far: 1. Less is more. Long...
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Depth Through Discipline, Part 3: The Final Word on Silence
For Part 2, click here Yesterday, I talked a lot. I mean A LOT-A LOT. I went to my kids’ school and had no less than six decent conversations in the course of a few hours. If you count the three books...
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Depth Through Discipline, Part 4: Prayer
Confession: I don’t exactly understand why we should pray. I don’t understand how a God who is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent can be influenced by the feeble requests of a weak, limited and...
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Depth Through Discipline, Part 5: Prayer (again)
My month-long focus on prayer was not what I expected. What I expected: That I’d need to do an in-depth study on the history, purpose and inner-workings of prayer. That I’d need to reconcile all my...
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The Key to Balance (No, For Real! The Struggle Ends Here)
I write about Balance, not because I am a Balance Expert, but because I am a Balance Struggler. I find Balance and lose Balance constantly. I have days or weeks or months where I find a good life-flow,...
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Six Ways to Maintain a Well-Balanced Mind
I used to think I needed a brain transplant. Turns out, I can renew the brain I already have. I remember a specific day when my kids were tiny. I was walking through the dining room with a baby in my...
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Maintaining a Well-Balanced Mind, Part 2: Help for Those Who Struggle Keeping...
The foundation of a peaceful, well-balanced mind is the discipline of gratitude. I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know. Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer...
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When I Can’t Be Trusted to Think My Own Thoughts
I have a Super Power. Well, three Super Powers, actually. The first is that, when I’m stressed, I clean my house. If I get into a fight with my husband, or a Cooper kid sasses me, I tackle baseboards...
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Exposing Lies Moms Believe, Part 9: A Good Mom is a Great Homemaker
Meet Tyler. She crossed the great divide from “Blog Buddy” to “Real Life Friend” when I had the honor to meet her TWICE! Which is crazy because she lives in a foreign country (Canada). Because she has...
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Depth Through Discipline, Part 1: Solitude and Silence
How are the New Year’s Resolutions coming? I, for one, have a horrible track record of going through the painstaking process of setting meaningful and God-honoring annual goals, only to let them...
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Depth Through Discipline, Part 2: More Silence and Solitude
For Part One, Click Here If twenty-one years of marriage has taught me anything, it’s taught me how to communicate with my man. In a nutshell, here’s what I’ve learned thus far: 1. Less is more. Long...
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Depth Through Discipline, Part 3: The Final Word on Silence
For Part 2, click here Yesterday, I talked a lot. I mean A LOT-A LOT. I went to my kids’ school and had no less than six decent conversations in the course of a few hours. If you count the three books...
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Depth Through Discipline, Part 4: Prayer
Confession: I don’t exactly understand why we should pray. I don’t understand how a God who is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent can be influenced by the feeble requests of a weak, limited and...
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