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It is a wonderful season right now of graduations, vacations and the promise and hope of a lazy summer ahead before these babies begin the next season of life come fall. I was commenting on one of my friend’s graduation posts the other day as to how surreal it was that her son was graduating
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Raise your hand if May is a busy month! Throw in a few birthdays and Mother’s day and every May is SUPER MAY around here!! (followed by June’s plethora of birthdays, anniversary and Father’s day–it’s practically a month of cake!) I know this day isn’t easy for everyone for a variety of reasons and I
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Linking it to Kelly and all the Quick Takes of the week gang because LONG LIVE THE LINKUP (without it I barely blog…..). Last weekend I had the awesome opportunity to present a renewal retreat for women at church. This gift of faith and growing together in sharing and caring for others is flat out
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It’s been a few weeks so I thought I’d jump in with Kelly et al. and catch you up a bit! It is spring!! I celebrated the other night with a walk on the beach to switch it up. Shorts, t-shirt…..it was a little cool, but if you walk fast enough and long enough you
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I have been incredibly blessed in my life to have a few truly spectacular people who provided me with strong spiritual direction. The kind that isn’t always comfortable but comes from a place of love and TRUTH. Friendships such as these are both a blessing and a challenge and the end result is tremendous growth
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I was listening to one of my podcasts** on my way to work, Girlfriends by Danielle Bean and one of the feedback messages she had was on the limited amount of blogs for the parents of the bigs…..teens and young adults and it got me to thinking. So much thinking. I don’t even think I
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Ah social media, you double edged sword, you. With the 2016 campaign nonsense of unimaginable choices and the resulting (yet expected) chaos of the victor in 2017…..my social media presence took a serious dive to what just may possibly be a permanent situation–which is awesome by the way!! Facebook removed from my phone and checked
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It’s been a minute so I thought I’d rehash and reprocess this week with Kelly and the 7 Quick Takes crew. Let’s see if I can truly make this quick 😉 Last weekend we paid a visit to our prior city; it was the Hubs first trip back in a looooooooong time. Since it bordered
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For the second year in a row I have been honored to share scripture reflections at Catholicmom.com. Here is today’s reflection: http://catholicmom.com/2017/02/09/daily-gospel-reflection-february-9-2017/
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A week ago, my boss told me to pick a day off. Today was that day. A Tuesday. I picked today because my daughter had to have a cavity filled. (#sadface #firstone) Since I’d have to take time off for that anyway, I figured it would be easier to take the whole day. So……Tuesday it
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Trekking through life: Faith, family, friends and a whole lot of coffee!
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