Archive | December, 2009

A New Year’s Journal (A Guest Post)

Please join me over at Steady Mom today for a post I wrote about starting a New Year’s Journal.  It’s my favorite New Year’s tradition!
A New Year’s Journal at Steady Mom

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What Does It Mean to be Blessed?

Seems like a simple question, right?  Down where I live (in what is sometimes described as The Bible Belt) folks use the term “blessed” an awful lot.  Usually we’re referring to some great, positive thing that has happened to us.  Sometimes we’re talking about our financial comfort or material wealth.  All sorts of things that [...]

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Passing Down Traditions- Even the Obscure Ones!

As I sit and type this, my four year old is dancing her heart out to a song most of you have probably never heard of- Snoopy vs. the Red Baron.  When I hear it I am a kid again, sitting in the backseat of my parents’ Ford Taurus station wagon on the drive home [...]

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Forty Years of Marriage

Today my parents celebrate 40 years of marriage. Since marital longevity is becoming rarer and rarer in our world, I thought I’d take a moment to publicly wish them a Happy Anniversary.
I’m confident that, as they said “I do” 40 years ago, they had no idea what the next 4 decades held in store [...]

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