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Five Ways to Leave a Legacy
I have this desire inside me to leave behind something that endures. Passing on to my children something that they can pass on to their kids that their kids can pass on to their kids. (I think you...
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I Jumped...
As a child I was painfully shy and had a hard time making friends. I remember one time in kindergarten; I got this idea that would change my friendless future. I would make a club!I told all the girls...
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An Interview with Kat Lee {A Crazy Obedience Post}
This week for the Crazy Obedience series, I get to share a few real life stories from real life people who are living real lives of Crazy Obedience. A few weeks back I attempted to calm some...
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In Which I Fess Up...
So today, I need to fess up."Hi. My name is Amanda. And I am struggling with 'Crazy Obedience'."Before I started this series, I had some doors open in my family’s life. And now we are walking in those...
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Because I Kind of Stink at Change
I think I needed to take a break... because I sure have been taking one!I've been spending a lot of time with my family. I've been remembering just how day-changing gift-counting, eucharisteo and...
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When Following Christ Doesn't Make a Lick of Sense
I am a “big-picture” person. I try to take the little fragments of my life and relationships and try to fit them into a big picture. I want to know that it’s all going to work out in the end. I want to...
View ArticleA Proclamation of a Conquering Housewife
After spending some months adjusting to the changes in my life and struggling through depression and fear, I felt like I needed to draw my line in the sand. So I wrote this proclamation.My name is...
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How to Overcome (Part 1)
“The praise of God shall be on my lips and with my praise shall I overcome.”I said it last week in My Proclamation.And somehow I just know that’s exactly how I fight the depression, the fear, the...
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How to Overcome (Part 2)
Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there I am in the midst of them.And there are six of us gathered in one office. I am in the middle, Two on my right, two on my left, one in front. I...
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On Messes {And Motherhood}
Right now, I am lying in bed with my ankle up (more on that in a minute) contemplating the messiness that is motherhood. These last two weeks have included the following:I found the shreds of an opened...
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On Failure {And Motherhood}
I’ve always been ambitious and driven. I can be a bit competitive and not very okay with mediocre. I don’t want to be okay. I want to be the best. And failure? I sort of hate it. I remember being a...
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On Cheerios, Failure, and Widows Who Give Their Everything
My house had been a mess.And I don’t mean mess like we are in junior high listening to the skinniest girl in the group complain about how she feels fat today. I mean mess. As in cheerios had been...
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In Honor of My Granny
She always wore perfume, an Elizabeth Taylor if I remember correctly. If you happened to catch her on the right day of the week, her red hair would be in a silky scarf that hid her rollers. I still...
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Oh That Fabulous Fringe Bottom
It seems everyone around me is having or has just had a baby. And, I'd be lying if I said I didn't have a touch of baby fever. Soft skin, newborn smell, a little baby that lays so snuggly right under...
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Love That Conquers Fear and The Return of Thankful Thursdays
Last week I found a lump on my son’s stomach. It was firm, about the size of a dime. My brain automatically went to doctor-mode as though I could accurately self-diagnose with my limited knowledge....
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I'm a Quality-Time Girl And Other Epiphanies
A few weeks ago, I was sharing the difficulty of coping with my husband’s schedule with a friend. Sometime during the course of the conversation, my friend casually said something along the lines of,...
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What Bravery Sometimes Looks Like
Since I was just talking about quality time and planning adventures and since Father’s Day is this weekend, I was inspired to write down a memory of my Dad and an ode to road trips. I was going into...
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For Plastic Swimming Pools, Crazy-haired Roosters, and Some Really Good Views...
# 240 The view from my book.#241 For when everybody gets to be included#242 Carwash snuggles#243 Good drivers (and those rare times when the shopping cart steering wheels are enough to keep two kids...
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Upon Your 2nd Birthday... {A Letter to My Son}
You came hard and fast and all at once.My labor started and stopped and started and stopped for two weeks. I was sleep deprived, swollen, and I clearly remember telling your tia, “Stick a fork in me....
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Why We Are Homeschooling
I think I was pregnant with my daughter when my husband and I had our first conversation as parents about our kids’ education. Public school? Private school? Or the strange and mysterious-to-us option...
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What Clean Feet and Rest Have to Do With Each Other {#TellHisStory}
Photo CreditJesus got up from the table. Calm and intentional. He grabbed the bowl of water and a towel.And Jesus knelt down. He unsandaled feet. He placed them in cool water.He dipped the towel into...
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Blueberries, a Whole Lotta Play, And a Little Vacation {#1000gifts}
#271 Playing hide-and-seek with the kids#272 Picking blueberries with friends#273 Two years with this guy#274 Boy meets baseball (I don't really like to use words like scrumptious to describe people,...
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An Ode to College and Textbooks... And a Way to Save Money on Both {A...
Let me start this post with this: I am receiving a gift card to CampusBookRentals.com in exchange for writing this post. I have some loved ones in my life who are in college. I thought this would be a...
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On Leaning, Limping, and What It Really Means to Live Broken
Photo CreditLean on Jesus.I have heard this phrase many times. And for some reason the last time I heard it, I thought of why one might lean.I remember spraining my ankle. As I lay prostrate on the...
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