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Club Defeat

This girl. She is my heart. Little Me (LM for short) has such a big heart for people, feelings, and words. Here in our new town she was really struggling.  We've always taught kindness and strength and inner beauty, and here... she's struggling with bullies and the strength to know who she is despite what other kids say. We've talked about fact (how she's on the honor roll) vs fiction (when other kids call her stupid) and how to react to that. It's more than that, though. Everything ... VIEW POST

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Three Redheads Walk Into a Church…

"Three redheads walk into a church. One redhead turns to the others and says... " No really, the three of us did walk into church, and I totally did tell them to go get in their correct pew with their class.****It's just a normal Wednesday for me, but let me tell you what God did. We're in our new town, just visiting different churches each week on Sundays. The kids are really missing Awanas. For my out of town friends, it stands for Approved Workmen Are Not Ashamed - a weekly church meeting for ... VIEW POST

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Let’s Be Unfriends

I'm not sure how it started or exactly when I gave myself permission to not have to be friends with the entire world. You see, as a business owner, for years we have been taught to use Facebook as a marketing tool. A networking tool. I once had a trainer tell me I should be adding 5 people per day to my friends list. So I did. Some people I actually wanted to be friends with. Some people were friends from work, or friends from church, or choir, or even from way back in kindergarten. Some were ... VIEW POST