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Motherhood Survival Skill #151: Juggling
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Hummingbird or Buzzard, Mom? (You Are What You Seek)
Saturday morning I ran some errands and returned home to find the family sitting at the kitchen bar, shoving blueberry pancakes into their smiling faces. But I barely noticed the smiles because I was too busy eyeing the pancake griddle on the counter with globs of batter on the non-griddle parts…and more globs of batter on […]
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Don’t Dye Alone
Maybe it’s not a dye job but the outfit you bought or the new lipstick you tried or the new recipe you cooked. If you don’t relate to this 100% mom moment by Kristen Brakeman (and the “supportive” words from her hubby and kids!) you need to check that degree from Mom University hanging on […]
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Keeping Our Kids Out of the Gutter
I’ll never win a bowling trophey. I like to bowl but I’m bad at it. Really bad. Like…I used to wish I could bowl 100. Now I wish I could bowl 70. But there was this one time Hubby and I went bowling with our Sunday school class, and I actually hit 168 (that’s almost […]
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If Your Spouse Becomes a Stranger
“I don’t even know who you are anymore.” Have you ever looked at your spouse–that person you’ve shared life’s chaos with and your kids with…but lately not much else–and felt like you no longer know each other? If you’ve been married with kids for more than a few months, you know your relationship can become […]