It’s day 30 of 30 days of thanks. This is my final post of this series. I will be going back to posting once a week. To your inbox I say…you’re welcome. I have appreciated you being along for the ride and I have loved reading your 30 days of thanks too! Although at
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Forever and Ever…Amen?
It’s my anniversary. 19 years. Here we are on the Ferris Wheel at Navy Pier. I thought it was appropriate because marriage is like a ride. Scary. Unpredictable. Exhilarating. There are ups and downs. It’s fun. Often exhausting. Sometimes leaving us with messy hair and feeling like we are going to puke. After 19 years, I
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Are you a Ragamuffin?
I just read The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning. OMG. LOVE this book! All of the pages are marked up and underlined and starred. I write things like “YES!” in the margins with lots of “!!!!!” This book is about Grace. This book cracks open the shells that we have built around ourselves through our perfectionism
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The Gift of Presence
It’s my mom’s birthday today. Happy Birthday Mom! Love you! It’s mine next week. I don’t tell you this so you will shower me with presents or birthday wishes (although that would be lovely). I tell you this because it has me thinking. People say, “What do you want for your birthday?” This is a
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Breaking Bread Together
Do you have friends that think differently than you do about politics? Unfortunately, a lot of us would say “no” to that question. I think we seek people out that agree with us so we feel good about what we think. We look for friends that agree with us on major topics such as politics
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Hope
My stomach hurts from laughing last night. My throat hurts from talking too. The band was loud and I was shouting and at one point, my husband leaned over and said, you haven’t stopped talking all night. (Of course, he didn’t mean this in a bad way…) I guess I hadn’t been out in awhile.
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Superhero
You know how you look back at some things and cringe about the way you behaved at that point? (Maybe you don’t but I have more than a few examples of cringe worthy behavior.) I’ve accepted that to get me where I am today, I needed to have each and every experience I’ve had. Every