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Category: thanks

  • Emotional Gifts

    This morning, I read a string on the internet of people talking about the emotional weight that women carry in families. One of the examples I read was wives sending Mother’s Day cards to their mothers-in-law for their husbands to help carry their relationship. Some were kind of sad, but I have a good story.…

  • Thanksgiving in January

    Today ends a fairly eventful week. Monday, Eliana was home from school as part of her classroom quarantine and general disruption of every human plan. Tuesday, Tim texted me to asked if we wanted a whole turkey. It was one of the unclaimed frozen birds his work had purchased to give out to the employees…

  • Great Expectations

    A lot of our struggles come from wanting things from others that they aren’t providing. Parents don’t like the choices their children make, and kids get disappointed by parents. In-laws and friends don’t show up or shut up at the right times. One of the keys to happiness in relationships is to stop carrying around…

  • Thankful

    About a week ago Tim, the kids and I went for a ramble on Cooper Mountain. The trees were lovely and everyone’s faces were rosy and I got a couple cute pictures. So thinking I’d get ahead of the holiday season, I went online and ordered Thanksgiving cards. Everyone does Christmas, why not skip the…