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Can I Get an Amen?

by gidget faith

A friend posted this quote on Facebook that she found in her BSF Bible study on Acts. Boy did I need to read it. “Let us not pray for easier lives but for greater power to bring blessing out of every pressure and trial.” Add to that this verse in Isaiah (40:11)…. He will tend [...]

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Lately… {on simplifying in the New Year}

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We’ve been struggling a lot with Gigi the last couple of months. Mainly through the hustle, bustle and excitement of the holidays, but even since then, we’ve been seeing some behavioral and anger issues in her that we want to start working though now, so as to hopefully prevent the development of a pattern in [...]

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On Not Meeting Needs…

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It feels good to do a little writing… even if it’s not really here on this blog. This past weekend we went camping up in the local mountains and I left my laptop at home (gasp!) and broke out the journal and pen to write a blog post for my new bloggy friend Beth at [...]

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8 Years

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2 lovebirds +8 years + 2 states + 7 homes + 3 kiddos = a whole lot of blessings Happy 8th Anniversary to the one I love! {counting the gifts, #82-102}

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She’s here…

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Counting Down the Days…

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I can hardly believe that we will be a family of five sometime in the next few weeks (!!). I’ve finally started doing some nesting… it’s amazing how the daily wrangling of a 1-year old and a 4-year old has made my nesting instinct sit on the back burner with this pregnancy. I just wanted [...]

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Mother’s Day

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I had a lovely Mother’s Day. My kids aren’t really old enough to give me gifts yet (when they are–maybe next year– I’d love to incorporate this sweet idea into our family), so it’s basically just my husband’s doing. This year David found something that really showed me his thoughtfulness, as it appealed to what [...]

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Brody’s 1st Birthday- A Baseball Party

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Well, since Brody’s first birthday happened to fall during MLB’s Opening Week, we thought it was only appropriate (especially for our family) to do an Opening Day baseball theme. My brother cooked up a sweet logo from the official MLB one, and the rest is history. {I added a thank-you line to it to use [...]

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The Idolatry of the Nuclear Family

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This has been on my mind now for a couple of weeks. I mentioned recently how I’d been feeling the Lord pressing on my heart thoughts on intentional community and when I went to hear author Steve Timmis speak, one of the things I asked during the Q & A session was about commitment. As [...]

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Family Mission/Purpose Statement

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As we start the year, David and I are really striving to simplify and de-clutter our home and our life. I am so excited to have an awesome tool to help us as we tackle it, Organized Simplicity: The Clutter-Free Approach to Intentional Living, the new book by my “boss”/editor-in-chief Tsh Oxenreider (aka Simple Mom). [...]

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