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Sick Baby Girl
So, Evie has RSV (a type of respiratory infection.) Halim has done some reading and pretty much every kid will get this by the age of 2; she is 9 months so I guess it’s just her time. But it is horrible. I realize it is nothing compared to children who have really terrible lifelong [...]
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Okay 2010. I’m ready. I’ve made a lot of resolutions for this year. If I accomplish them all, my life will look pretty different by the end of this year. Several of my resolutions revolve around growing as a wife and a mother. So, I’m going to be taking this pretty seriously this year – [...]
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Influence
One of John Piper’s Tweets today reads, “The most influential people in the world are those who pray big in Jesus’ name. The second most influential are mothers.”
As I was reading this, I was thinking of a statistic that Halim shared with me a few weeks ago – something like 2/3 of all stay-at-home [...]
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Maybe I’m a Superhero . . .
I mean, I have a vehicle with as many moving parts as the Batmobile. I can open the doors and trunk of my minivan with a single button. I have so many different knobs and screens on my instrument panel that I don’t even know what half of them do.
I also have this amazing ability [...]
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Stewarding Eternal Souls
I was driving for hours and hours on I-35 from Fort Worth back to Austin today after visiting my family for a few days (there are a few pics at the end of this post). For about an hour, both kiddos were asleep at the same time in the backseat. Blissful as it was, I [...]
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