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  • Home

    I had a reoccurring dream last night. One of the classics. It’s where I am running in slow motion. It’s not a nightmare, and I am not struggling get away from something, but trying to get back to something. The locations I am slo-mo traveling through are old neighborhoods of places I used to live…

  • John 14: Rooms for All

    Jesus tells his disciples to not let their hearts be troubled, but believe. “In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?” Thomas asks him where he is going so that they can follow. Jesus tells him that…

  • The Insignificant Other

    Every day I make appointments with people to go over their life insurance. When I schedule the appointment, I go out of my way to ensure that they include their significant other in the conversation. The main reason is that most people won’t make important decisions without their person, so having them on the call…

  • Fixer Uppers

    If necessity is the mother of invention, then poverty and misplaced confidence are the parents of DIY.  When we bought our home eight years ago, it was plenty large enough for Tim, me and a preschooler. Now we are a family of four and space is feeling tight. We have reconfigured the kids bedroom in…

  • Life in the Margins

    One of the things that I am trying to do better with the kids is to build in margins. If we all have to be somewhere at a set time, then I schedule the drive time and parking. Then I add the time that it will take to find the children’s shoes and also go…

  • The Hard Rest

    With school starting next week, I finally did a reset in the kids’ room.  On Monday and Tuesday, we went through all of the clothes and got rid of the fall and winter clothing they outgrew since last year. We also pulled anything lighter that won’t make it next to summer, size-wise. We were rewarded…

  • Spring Broken

    There is some expectation built up around spring break. Maybe from television and movies, but it’s been hard week as a Stay at Home Mom. I had the kids home from elementary school and preschool with only one car that Tim required for his daily commute. Our trusty Accord has been spending its break camping…

  • Coupled

    When it comes to relationships, there is often friction between people when they each want the other to change to meet the their own preferences. Which things are legitimate requests to make and which are not? I think it boils down to character versus personality. We should all strive to be the best versions of…

  • 3 Bags of Trash

    I am decluttering the house, again. I did the bathroom and our bedroom last week, and I am focusing on the kids’ room this week. Yesterday, I did the major purge of everything on their floor, on and under the bed. So far we’ve discarded three big bags of trash. We had to get rid…

  • The Artist

    My dad once told me a story about an artist who made paintings. He didn’t sell his work, but just kept it all. They were too precious to him. The only exception was the one time he gave a painting to a friend for his birthday. Then one day, the artist’s house caught fire and…