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A Home Tour and a Horse Ride

by gidget life is beautiful

A couple of weeks ago I took the kids out to visit my old college roommate, Jessica. She was visiting her parents, whose house is about an hour away (she’s one of the few lucky ones who gets to stay in SLO after graduating). Jessica’s parents live way out there, at least relatively speaking. Their [...]

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Swap Fun

by gidget fun

One of the fun things I was up to during my blog fast was finishing up and sending off a couple of “Favorite Thing Swaps.” The idea is to send (at least) 3 of your favorite items to your swap partner. I received the most wonderful gifts in return and met some amazing ladies! {Visit [...]

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Savoring Summer

by gidget family

One of my favorite bloggers/authors, Amanda Soule has been posting about how she’s been savoring summer, and I decided to follow suite. Here’s what the end of summer has looked like around here, and we’ve definitely been savoring it. enjoying a few more moments with dear friends who were moving away… savoring the fruit of [...]

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Friendships, Gifts of Grace

by gidget faith

I’ve always been part of a group of girls. Every summer of my childhood was spent with a few weeks camping at the lake with a group of girls (and a couple guys) that I’m still close to.  And since high school, I truly feel like God has gifted me with girlfriends that would lead [...]

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Bloggy Meetup With Chrissie

by gidget fun

On Saturday morning my family and I met up with someone who has gone from a blogger who I like to a real-life friend! After meeting Chrissie from Flipflops and Applesauce at BlissDom 09 and realizing we lived only about an hour apart, we vowed to meet up with our families. We finally did it [...]

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Coffee Shop Nostalgia

by gidget life is beautiful

I’m trying my hand at a new style of writing/blogging here, more of a memoir-style. I don’t expect to be as good at it as some people, but I figured it would broaden my writing horizons a little. I wrote this last week with pen & paper (haven’t done that sort of thing in a [...]

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Blissful Friends

by gidget fun

I had a fabulous time at Blissdom last weekend. It was a relaxing, fun trip away, and I was stoked that Chiquita got to spend some quality time with her daddy and grandparents while I was gone. Later on, I’d like to post some of the new things I learned related to blogging, but I [...]

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Kindred Spirits, Part 2

by gidget faith

I started this series with a story about how God has brought special friends into my life at just the right time… This has probably happend more times than I can count; in fact, I believe that all of my closest friends were hand-picked by God to be used in my life in some way [...]

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Kindred Spirits, Part 1

by gidget faith

I feel like sometimes God brings someone into our lives at a particular moment for a particular reason. You could call this a coincidence, or a “Godwink” as a friend of mine shared with our Bible study, but to me it’s simply His provision. This has happened in my life more than once, and I [...]

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Christmas Manifesto, Part 3

by gidget faith

Did you miss Part 1 & Part 2 of Gidget’s Christmas Manifesto Series? Summary/Review of Hundred Dollar Holiday by Bill McKibben This short book is packed with information! I want to just give an overview here– the book is such quick read that you’d do better to just read it yourself than for me to [...]

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