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The secret to true rest
Like I said in my previous post. A good bit happened last weekend. I also cried. A lot. I sat on the sofa Sunday night. When the weekend was finally over. And it was all said and done. And sobbed to Jay. About how tired I am. And about how burnt out [...]
Happenings
There were a lot of happenings this weekend. Lilla participated in her first race. A splash and dash. As it happens to be called. It was nothing major. But in the weeks leading to it. Jay helped her train. By practicing her swimming. When they first started, she was rusty. Jay was a [...]
Sprung into spring
Hello friends! How are you? I can’t believe it is already May. I feel like we were just on spring break in the freezing weather, and yet here we are, the weather is warm, school is almost out and summer is around the corner. We have had a great spring, with the girls spending a lot [...]
When you come from crazy
I grew up in a crazy family. Plenty of people say their families are crazy, but mine really was crazy. As a child, I thought the crazy was kind of fun. I loved that when we all got together – my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins – something interesting always happened. And if I was [...]
Finding time for the important things
It was hard to find time to pray this past week. I tried to, but life always seemed to be getting in the way. There were the piles of laundry, full of muddy race clothes and dirty underwear from a few unfortunate accidents. Then there were the clean clothes that needed to be folded and [...]
Recovering from the big race
I ran cross-country in high school. I was neither fast nor good, but my parents felt I needed another activity on my resume. They didn’t think the sport of “cheerleading” would quite be enough to fully impress upon the colleges I applied to my athletic prowess. So, I ran cross-country, an open sport that no [...]
Chicken wire and cursing like a sailor
I was standing in the kitchen waiting for my brownies to finish baking. I had one hand on the handle of the oven and one hand in an oven mitt. I was waiting and thinking – about something I couldn’t make sense of and that was pissing me off. And I was getting myself all [...]
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