Yesterday was the most incredibly wonderful day of this whole road trip. The biggest reason why was because it was the most spontaneous non-agenda day of the past week. We’ve pretty much not had an agenda this whole trip, other than during the Plexus Leaders Retreat where we had several activities mapped out for us, and it’s been fun just striking out each day without so much as a hotel…
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Honeymoon Road Trip, Day One.
We had the most wonderful day ever yesterday. Everything was perfect, from the weather to the food to finding front row parking places every single place we went, as if we were God’s favorite children and He made all the paths straight just for us. You know, I’ve always heard that you should always take a vacation with your spouse every year whether you can afford it or not, and…
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A Letter to My Daughter: What I Want You to Know About Friends.
Dear Daughter, I know that middle school can be a total beating. I remember ever so clearly, and I still have very vivid scars from my OWN middle school experience. I wish we could skip right over these years and get to the fun part (aka college), but the hard years are the ones that make you into a better person, I know for a fact, so we have to…
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Remodeling Progress, Parenting, and Considering the Ant.
Yep. I haven’t talked about it in months, because we’re at THAT stage in the remodeling process. If you’ve ever bought a project house, you know what I’m talking about… the point where the heart-pumping thrill of starting something new is long gone, but you’re still SO much blood, sweat, and tears away from where you want to be. It just so happens that it’s also that point immediately after you’ve…
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Sarah’s Amazing Cheesy Kale Chips {Trim Healthy Mama S}
You know, I have tried so many times to like kale chips. I know all about how healthy they are. I know other people love them. I’ve made half a dozen batches TRYING to LIKE them, and I just never have… they’ve always been bitter. And who likes bitter?! But then my wonderful friend and neighbor Sarah came over with a little bowl of kale chips for me to try,…
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Dirt + Water = A Good Day…..
Baby Susannah Joy is most definitely a ‘playing outside’ kind of girl. In fact, one of her first words was ‘guys?’ which means, in Susie language, ‘go outside?’ We figured that out because she says, “guys! guys!” as she hangs on the doorknob to the back door. We’re smart like that. Just this past week, she discovered the sprayer at the end of the water hose. She LOVES helping water…
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The Blessed Ending of a School Year.
Oh, y’all. We made it. Another school year complete. Behind us. Finished. We did not die. And that’s in SPITE of how I caved and allowed my kids to eat Lunchables for one week out of the year (because, you know, I feed my kids kale and stuff…) and I don’t even want to hear a single word about it, because since I started my new job I CANNOT KEEP…
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{Five Reasons Why THM May Not be Working} It Might be Your Thyroid.
I’m not even gonna try to explain why it’s taken me so long to write Reason Two of this series of posts I promised you I’d write months ago. Sometimes you can manage to do ONLY that which keeps your children alive, one moment at a time, know what I mean? 2014 has been one of those “barely keeping the children alive” kinds of years, but I’m finally breathing some…
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Come On SPRING.
I think I speak for all of us when I say I have NEVER longed for spring as much as I am longing for it now. I am so ACHING for spring I can’t even stand it. This winter has been a beating and I am OVER IT. I’m a Texas girl after all, and we like our weather nice and warm down here, and our NORMAL winters that last…
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{Book Review} Fly Away by Kristin Hannah.
I read lots and lots of books. Scratch that… I BUY lots and lots of books, but since I have a toddler on the loose at home I don’t have too much time to sit and read anymore unless I just WANT her to climb onto the kitchen table and pour all the salt out into the leftover syrup onto a stack of napkins like she did this morning.So, no,…
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Words.
I was doing a little reading in the New Testament about Jesus the other day, and a few words jumped out at me. It was the part in Luke 19 where all the church leaders wanted to kill Jesus, but they didn’t, …because all the people hung on his words… I loved that. Maybe because I love words. Reading has always been my favorite hobby, and then there’s my other hobby,…
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{Trim Healthy Style} Breakfast Egg Scramble {and a Shortcut!}
I KNOW there’s nothing about this recipe that’s earth shattering or even remotely original. It’s just that I kind of get stuck in ruts on this THM journey, and found myself SO. BURNED. OUT. ON. EGGS. for breakfast. But they’re cheap, fast, and easy, and so incredibly healthy, chock full of PROTEIN and that incredible amino acid Tyrosine that makes you feel good…. so I want to eat lots…
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