“Stop! Don’t run into the parking lot! Take my hand!” This is what I would find myself yelling time and time again to our daughter. She was fast and she was determined. Attempting to get her to stop and hold my hand was a constant battle. Maybe she saw the freedom her big sisters had and wanted to show me…
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I will never forget something our pastor said to us when we were going through premarital counseling many years ago. “A marriage isn’t two people each giving 50%,” he said. “It’s two people each giving 100%.”This hit me. Hard. I had always thought of relationships as 50/50 propositions. You each give. And you each take. You try to make it…
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One of my favorite movies is The Greatest Showman. There are a few things I know are going to happen every time the movie comes on. I will sing. Loudly. And I don’t care who is in the room to hear. I will dance. Not the stand up and move around the room kind of dance. More like the wave…
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Do you see that elliptical in the garage, buried between the shelves of bins and tipped over old toddler chair? This is where I workout. It used to really bug me. Being wedged in between all of the clutter. I would look around and my mind would make a mental checklist off all I needed to do. Go through the…
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Lately, I have been thinking a lot about how quickly time passes by. The evidence is all around me. Yesterday, I sat in the parking lot of King’s Gyros with my husband on an impromptu lunch date. We had to pick up the van and decided while we were out, we may as well make a date of it. The…
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