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The Hearth Letter No. 1
Read more →: The Hearth Letter No. 1The Story: I’ll bet you’d never guess that I’m a recovering people pleaser, would you? Well shocker, I am. I am very skilled at tying myself in mental knots over what someone might think of me, and taking the easy route to get out of socially uncomfortable situations. Nine months ago I became a mom, and the outcome of my people pleasing no longer affected just me. I became aware very early on that I was bending and swaying to…
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You Actually Can
Read more →: You Actually Can…You just say that you can’t, and then it’s a self fulfilling prophesy. Let me explain. If you follow me on instagram, you’ll know that last week I was in the kitchen almost nonstop. With a bunch of my produce from the garden ripening, and some awesome deals I got from the local produce market, I had my hands full canning and processing over 20 pounds of produce. All of the produce had to be used that day, or it…
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God is a Much Better Gardener Than I am
Read more →: God is a Much Better Gardener Than I amAfter a particularly taxing day of parenting I signaled to my husband that I was bugging out, put on my headphones, and headed to the garden. I needed to touch some grass, so to speak. I sat on said grass just outside the brick border of the garden, intent on decompressing. But it wasn’t long before I started noticing things that needed my attention in the garden; there were several patches of weeds that had gotten big enough to get…
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Constant Overwhelm isn’t a Badge of Honor
Read more →: Constant Overwhelm isn’t a Badge of HonorI can’t count how many times I’ve let the house go for a few days or weeks, then rage cleaned for a few hours or a whole day because the clutter is stressing me out so much. I bet you’ve done this too. The pile by the doorway where things have just been getting dumped, the mountain of clothes to be folded that sat for a week, the pile of mail on the counter that will be really simple to…
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I Taught My Son About Robins
Read more →: I Taught My Son About RobinsSome of the best advice we’ve received to date about parenting is to be the expert on the world to our child. To introduce topics to him intentionally, and not wait until he’s exposed elsewhere to explain it. To answer questions our child asks, and keep on answering until he runs out of questions. The other day when the weather was nice (longing sigh), I took my son out on the front porch to get some fresh air. We’re in…
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Goodness
Read more →: GoodnessBelow is a blog I wrote for my church’s women’s ministry, as part of a series on the Fruits of the Spirit. Enjoy! I’m a definition gal. One of the first places I go in Bible study or prep-work for theBible study we host is to look at the meanings of words in the passage that I amstudying. So when I began my work on “goodness”, in the context of the fruit of thespirit, I of course went to Galatians…
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