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Unexpected Journey: Part 5

Part 1: The Call Part 2: Doubts Part 3 (interlude) Part 4: Confirmation Continued…   From the beginning of this journey of thinking about adoption the question that Mark and I kept asking ourselves was...

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Go to the Worship of God Conference for FREE {or Win the Audio Recordings}

This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to Dana and her family! For years our family has desired to attend a NCFIC (National Center for Family Integrated Churches) Conference. We have many friends...

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Hickory Horned Devil and Rolling Down a Cliff

Last weekend our family participated in our annual family campout (this year we had 124 people, 92 of them were children). While playing in the woods, Alyssa (13) and one of her friends found this...

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Our Family is Growing: 4 Moms

This 4 Moms post is different. It’s not the post that you expected. It is not a post that I could ever have imagined writing before Monday. This is a post that only God could orchestrate. A man’s heart...

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Stories of String Bandaids

Sunday was a lovely day. Worship together as a family, lunch and fellowship  with friends and then some quiet time reading aloud to the kids. Mark was tucking children into bed while I was nursing...

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Fast

Sadie (10) and Savannah (8) ready to run These girls are fast. They are part of the fastest elementary cross country team in the state of Tennessee. Sadie (10) and Savannah (8) both set personal...

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Catching Up and Getting Ready

This is a post to catch you all up on the happenings in our house and to help me not feel so guilty for being absent from the blog. (I have all these big plans and lots of things I’d like to post...

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Puke, Laughter and Organization

And sometimes you just have to laugh… When Grandma moved in last Tuesday, the nurse mentioned that one of the difficult things to manage for someone with limited mobility is a stomach virus because...

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Selfishness, Sadness and Gratitude

Recent weeks have brought circumstances that have caused me to see my sin more clearly. These times of glaring sin always bring me to my knees. I’m humbled and disappointed, but always thankful....

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Thirty-One Party

You are welcome to shop for Thirty-One products now through Saturday midnight. Thank you for supporting our family. Join me on Facebook tonight at 8 (EST) for a Thirty-One party.  Of course, you...

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Lilla Rose Sale and Giveaway

Lilla Rose is offering a big Black Friday sale. For two days only all products will be 20% off with additional savings of 25%-50% on select items and free shipping on orders of $50 or more.   In...

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Announcing Baby #12

Our family is delighted to announce that our gracious God has blessed us with the eternal gift of a new baby. We are amazed and grateful for this gift, but this is not the announcement that I expected...

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Pregnancy #12: Update

The Lord gives and The Lord takes away, blessed be the name of The Lord. We found out Friday that our twelfth child, no longer had a beating heart. We rejoice that he/she is now in the presence of God,...

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When it Rains… God is still Good

I almost don’t know where to start because so much has happened since I spoke in this place. I keep waiting until I have time to write about it all, but I’m afraid if I continue to do that it will...

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Happy Easter

He is Risen. Back row: Matthew (14), Alyssa (13), Amber (17), Kaitlin (16)Middle Row: Colby (7), Savannah (9), Sadie (10), Valor (1), Carter (12)Front Row: Bella (3) and Nicholas (6)   Happy Easter...

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Ultimate Homemaking Bundle

I will be the first to admit that I’m not a big fan of ebooks, so it may seem odd that I’m telling you about a big ebook sale (I know, I know), but there is a very good reason.  All of this for just...

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Pregnancy #13: Quiet

Quiet, that’s how I will always think about this pregnancy, quiet. I would have been due in November. It began quietly with a barely-there pregnancy test. And it took three more days before we were...

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Ambleside Homeschooling and a Large Family

I apologize to those of you who received a partially worked on, draft version of this post (technical difficulties). This one is finished. Please feel free to post your questions in the comment...

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Not Me: Mohawks and Socks

“Not Me” Post – A post where I make you feel like you have it all together by bravely confessing some of our family’s faults, failings, or quirks by denying them. Last week, when cutting Valor’s (1)...

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Ambleside Homeschooling Q & A: Math and Science, Start Time and College

Thank you for all of the questions about Homeschooling a Large Family with Ambleside. In this post I’m going to answer some of the ‘easy’ questions. Eventually, I will get out some posts that answer...

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Bella’s Play Kitchen from an Old Dresser

For Bella’s third birthday we wanted to get her a play kitchen, but after pricing the options, we decided to make one. Not only is our play kitchen much sturdier than anything we could have purchased,...

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Wordless: Good Mommy

I think I’m a good mommy when my boys are dirty. That happens quite often. I may be just be deceiving myself. Valor (1) [social_share] Wordless: Good Mommy is a post from: Raising Olives Earn free...

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Summer Sale and Giveaway

Lilla Rose is having a summer sale with 10% off all products and free shipping on orders of $40 or more. The sale lasts two days only ending tomorrow June 26 at midnight. July’s Flexi of the Month: The...

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Blogging, Teens and Church: An Update

I have been thinking about this blog lately. It comes to mind because I still have a lot to say. Friends ask about it. Family who live a distance from us say that they miss seeing pictures. I get...

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Where We Are Now

A blog reader once told me that when a blogger stops blogging it’s like an author stopping in the middle of a story, that she always wonders how it ends. Even though we haven’t come to the end of our...

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