And then I woke up from the dream of having it all

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A few weeks ago I sat in a circle of amazing women – college juniors and seniors – and tried to answer some of their big questions. Their hard nitty gritty questions. They asked about marriage and balance and how not to lose one’s self.
We sat in the student lounge where my husband teaches and [...]

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Four helpful social media laws: 2. It’s about Conversation not Pitch, Nagging or Complaining

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In October I spoke at the Relevant Conference on a panel about social media. I have this awesome gig as the social media manager for DaySpring and community manager for their website, (in)courage. I love my job and I think about social media like, a lot. This week I’ll be sharing 4 posts with some [...]

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Five Minute Friday: Grateful

November 25, 2011

On Fridays around these parts we stop, drop, and write.
For fun, for love of the sound of words, for play, for delight, for joy and celebration at the art of communication.
For only five short, bold, beautiful minutes. Unscripted and unedited. We just write without worrying if it’s just right or not.
Won’t you join us?
1. [...]

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When it’s not your kids playing in the bathroom, sometimes silence is a good thing

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Life has been a little bit like this lately.

And it will be a little while longer.
Good things. Busy things. Work things. Family things.
So I’m taking a deep breath over here and some quiet time. Because even moms need a time out sometimes.

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The only way to make it through most days

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“I’m afraid the land of perfect is a myth. We might feel we are skirting the borders with our dream, but the reality is those borders don’t exist because perfect doesn’t.” ~Quitter, Jon Acuff.
There is no such thing as perfect.
Perfect doesn’t exist.
Perfect is not an attainable goal.
Perfect is merely a street sign at the intersection [...]

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How to help a daughter grieve {a more than five minutes post}

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{Don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten about Five Minute Friday. It’s just that my days in the Southern hemisphere are few and my memories and words in this place are many. So I need more than five minutes this week. But the link up for your beautiful five minute moments is below. Link up; I love [...]

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Totally random post about the lows and lowers of international travel

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Since travel season – both near {we leave tonight to celebrate Pete’s grandma who turns 100. That’s 1-00, yo!} and far {more about that next week} – is upon us, I’ve started having travel-with-kids flashbacks. The kind you need therapy to recover from. The kind that remind me of something I wrote a couple years back [...]

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My job in a musical, stop-motion-photography nutshell

April 27, 2011

My day job? Besides changing diapers, shuttling kids around, and trying to keep up with my laundry – it’s this. This amazing, humbling opportunity to encourage women in their every day, every where lives.
I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
And if you set it to music, threw in some awesome stop motion photography, and pictures of [...]

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When Monday feels like a three ring circus

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To walk into the high top, past the three rings and the fire breather, between the clowns and the jugglers to face lions is no easy task.

But we are called to it. Mothers. We are called to tame lions. And while I don’t know much, I am learning that it is impossible to face this [...]

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If you want your man to help out, then don’t do this

Thumbnail image for If you want your man to help out, then don’t do this April 11, 2011

Dictate in minute detail how the dishwasher should be loaded.
Oversee his diapering of your baby, double checking whether or not he applied enough Desitin.
Rattle off a list of to-do’s the minute he walks in the door from work. Repeat them again over dinner. Mutter them under your breath while you’re getting the kids ready for [...]

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