Category: Ethos
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The Hard Stuff
Most often, being Mommy is incredibly fun… The most fun ever. Watching your kids master a skill like tying their shoes, learning to read, blow a bubble with gum, or ride a bike; throwing them a super fun birthday party, saying yes to popsicles for breakfast, surprising them with a trip to Disney… these moments are the best moments, the mountaintop moments. The highlight…
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Fourteen
Today marks the fourteenth year that I’ve had the privilege of being Mrs. to Handsome Husband. He’s my favorite human. “The woman was made of a rib out of the side of man; not made out of his head to rule over him, not out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but…
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Birthday Bike-a-Palooza
Center Sister turned 8 years old this weekend. Tempus fugit. Seems like just yesterday she was the giggly, silly infant we nicknamed Goose. With an unfinished mud-pit for a yard, and a house full of extended family in from out of state, a party at home just wasn’t a reasonable option. We were committed to keeping…
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The Countryside
The onset of summer in the countryside has caused us to slow our daily pace a bit. Not idle, but not rushing… Taking time to smell the roses. Deliberately – eagerly – getting stuck behind a train. Blowing past bedtimes more often than not. Working hard in the yard and then nursing our sun-fatigue, observing God’s creation in nature and the company of our visitors. Simple…
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Randomization
Here’s the latest from our neck of the woods: We wrapped up all the fun memory-making with our most recent houseguests. We got stuck in a massive traffic jam on a rural Montana highway. Our “ato” garden is coming along nicely. Speaking of our mud-pit of a yard, we finally got our sprinklers in! Next up: Sod…
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Houseguests
We have a steady stream of visitors heading eastward from Oregon, again, this summer. *Be our guest, be our guest, put our service to the test…* With Quality Time as my primary Love Language, I feel especially blessed when loved-ones are willing to travel- and use up vacation time– to hang with us. Bestie Courtney & Busy-Bee…
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Making a Home
I’m a homemaker. Making and keeping and running our home is a job I actually take pride in. I was thrilled to have the opportunity to share how we strive to maintain an organized, efficient home with a bunch of local high-school Home-Ec students, earlier this week. They returned to tour our house as a field-trip, yesterday afternoon. My friend (the…
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Day Trippers
Happy Mother’s Day! It’s not quite 8am and I’m tranquilly sipping my hot coffee, in a sunbeam, in solitude, as Handsome Husband and kiddos craft me a special breakfast. Picture perfect, right? What I failed to mention is that I’ve been up since 6:30, already unloaded and reloaded the dishwasher, washed and folded laundry, stripped sheets off beds, and cleaned up a potty-training disaster.…
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Dustbowl
I have a serious case of yard-envy. It seems we are the only family in our new, rural subdivision who did not finance their landscaping into their mortgage. Ours remains a lifeless dustbowl, but we are steadily earning sweat equity by doing the bulk of the design and labor ourselves. Besides, our plans for our property…
