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Monday Breakfast: Oatmeal. Told you, this is pretty much every Monday's breakfast. Quick, easy, and everyone will eat it as long as it has sugar and milk. Since I am not doing dairy, I've been adding coconut cream to my hot cereal and it is delicious.
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During the month of March each year our family usually joins with Lahash and participate in Rice and Beans month. The three foundational principles of the month are solidarity, simplicity and sharing. We eat meals mainly composed of rice and beans in solidarity with those in this world that eat
Family Updates
The following blog post was written a little over a year ago. It is written in a question/answer format listing some of the things I wanted to share even though most people weren't asking. I showed it to John and he wasn't sure about me
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What does healthy grieving look like? I don't really have an answer for that. There is such a range of what deep sadness looks like, how people enter into it, and what steps they take to allow themselves to feel. And there are layers to healthiness. Is it
Emma's Story
10 years. Next week it will be 10 years since I sat down to write a blog post to say good-bye to my darling Emma. This morning as I went through the routine of getting kids ready to head to school I was so angry. Every little thing got on
Family Updates
This last weekend, John and I got to fly off all by ourselves to the East Coast to visit Virginia Theological Seminary. It felt like such a culmination of the last two years' worth of hopes and dreams and plans, but I know that I haven't shared
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I haven't been blogging much recently. That's pretty obvious when I look at the scarcity of posts over the last year. Although I could claim it is because I'm just too busy, the truth is I've often been able to blog even
Family Updates
I had written a blog post quite a few weeks ago that was meant to sort of be an update to the one I wrote about starting my job. So many things have happened since then that my schedule looks so different than it did when I wrote that blog.
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I am 35 years old. In that 35 years I have changed a lot. The last 15 of those years I have been married to a wonderful man. We were young when we got married, at least according to today's standards, and as probably many people thought, we
Personal Growth
I spent some time trying to think of a creative title to this that somehow made sense and I think I just ended up with something confusing, but oh well. Have you ever noticed that the more time you have, the more time you waste? Is that just my problem,
Personal Growth
Having been raised in a tradition that doesn't routinely commemorate the season of Lent, I have found myself a little confused on what this season really means. I had heard of Lent, usually in the context of friends giving up a food item, or facebook, or something else
Family Updates
Life has been a little hard lately. My kids have all been battling a long-lasting stomach bug, which means no school, no schedule, and lots of TV. I’m feeling the need to get back into a routine, but it will have to wait a little longer as we wait