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Life Needs Door Wreaths

We've been in our rental house for four and a half months. I've been in this new town for almost seven. Still, it seems so temporary. Because we haven't found "the right house" (the market is limited, houses are overpriced, no one can agree what "right" means, is this even the town we want to raise our kids in, does God have a long-term purpose for us here or is this move a temporary stepping stone on the way to somewhere else, etc) we're still just renting. Most of our boxes are still ... VIEW POST

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When Two Siblings Learn Differently

Last year I told you about our struggle with educating two very different learning styles. One twin, LM: extroverted, independent, a leader and social butterfly from the day she was born, vs the other, LH: Insightful, dependent, and wears his heart on his sleeve. If she can't find a way, she'll make one. If he can't find a way, he'll doubt that 1) there is a way and 2) that he is smart enough to find it. We chose to take the kids out of public school last year and homeschool to let ... VIEW POST

Do You Need A Second Chance? - Jonah

Do You Need A Second Chance?

Ahhh, Jonah. You know him. You love him. The whole "stuck in a whale belly for three days" gig. Who doesn't know the story of Jonah? Well just in case you don't, here's the scoop. In Jonah 1:2-3, God told Jonah, 2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”3 But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for ... VIEW POST

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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