Five Minute Friday: Real

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When last did you write for fun? Not to impress anyone, not for blog hits or comments or Pinterest pins? When last did you just write? On Fridays over here a group of people who love to go all out buck wild for the fun of the written word gather to share what five minutes [...]

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Five Minute Friday: Together

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Around here we write for five minutes flat on Fridays. We write because we love words and the relief it is to just write them without worrying if they’re just right or not. So we take five minutes on Friday and write like we used to run when we were kids. On Fridays we write [...]

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When they ask you what you did today

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“So,” he asks me. “What did you do today?” And I think about lists checked off and conference calls and the crock pot I had to run through the dishwasher and still rinse out by hand. I think about the four rooms that I vacuumed and the EBook cover design I’m excited about. I think [...]

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Five Minute Friday: Loud

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UPDATED: Hey gang, my humblest apologies for the misbehaving linky today. I heard they had a crash on their server and we’re all feeling the ripple effects. But the linky elves are trying to fix it and I hope it will be back to behaving properly again soon. In the meantime, feel free to leave [...]

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On surviving the crush of the morning rush

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It occurs to me how much I miss on the days when I’m frustrated. On the days when I hurry them through brushing teeth and climbing bunk bed ladders and demands for just one more sip of water. On evenings when I rush and mutter and long for the solace of bed and laptop and [...]

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On seeing our {kids’} mistakes in perspective

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My first born, he’s just like me. Starts the day out with a gold ribbon ceremony for showing honor, courage, responsibility at school and all he can think about is the reprimand that ended his school day. All praise clouded out by a finger shaken in his direction. His breath fogs up the glasses that [...]

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Sometimes the only way to read our kids is by braille

January 18, 2012

She breathes through her nose when she’s having a strong emotion. Short, sharp exclamation points that punctuate her just ten months of life. Her brother yells, “Wa-hoo!” with accompanying right-hand fist pump when a surprise unfolds, there’s ice cream in a cone for dessert, or we agree to let him watch Pingu. His brother at [...]

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When God moves into the neighborhood

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It hasn’t snowed here yet. It’s been unseasonably warm. When Zoe and I walk to pick Jackson up from Kindergarten the sun warms us in ways unexpected for December. I’ve been able to say more yes to the playground than no. But the radio sings of winter. It plays song after song of worship that [...]

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The hard work of liking our kids, not just loving them

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There are frayed edges of motherhood that aren’t often talked about. Those places where we’re holding onto our temper with one hand and the belief that things have got to get better eventually with the other. One night that place rocks me hard as I rock my baby girl in one arm and cell phone [...]

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Because children are in the eye of the beholder

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He’s wearing nothing but the blue camo underroos when he comes running at me. I barely have time to brace before all that stocky, nearly-four-year-old life slams into my knees. Amazing, to be missed like this. Today he asks me to wave from the door while he chops down that oak tree in the front [...]

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