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  • Pregnancy Hair – Love It Or Loathe It?

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    There are a lot of things that happen to your body when you are pregnant. Mainly, your hormones increase which cause a lot of other things to go out of whack. One of the things is that your hair changes. This was one of those things that I read about either before or while I…

  • Father’s Day: Moving Past The Good, Sad, & Ugly

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    Father’s Day was on Sunday and as I went through the day I saw a variety of online posts about fathers. Some were good and some were not so good. In fact some were downright ugly. The Ugly Recently, one of my male coworkers jokingly made the statement “I have no kids… that I know…

  • Opposites Attract Part 2: 3 Ways To Find Common Ground

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    So as you can see from the title this is part 2 of opposites attract. Read part 1 here. In this post I would like to share some of my ideas on how to bridge the gap between you and your opposite spouse. I’m assuming that you already love and care for them, but you…

  • Love Me Through It – I Am The Body

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    This topic is something that has been on my heart for a while. However, it really hit me the other day when I was listening to Pandora the other day and Casting Crown’s “If We Are The Body” came on. In this song both of the verses speak of someone entering the church and there…

  • Keeping Baby’s Schedule: There’s An App For That

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    I was recently in a conversation with someone who was telling me about a babysitting experience. She was watching a 5 month old and when she attempted to put the baby to sleep for the night it was unsuccessful. The baby would wake up every 45 minutes or so. Worried, she contacted the parents and…

  • How To Leave Early On The Last Teacher Workday

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      I don’t know how other school districts do it, but in mine we always have at least one teacher workday at the end of the school year. I have become a professional at being able to leave early on this day. The end of the year teacher workday is usually a day set a…

  • Making Me Humble: Learning From Experience

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    The idea for this post hit me earlier this week as I put on tennis shoes with my work close for the second week in a row. Being required to do something that I previously judge others for has made me humble. You see, since delivering my daughter I have had a series of health…

  • Having a Good Memory: Blessing or Curse?

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    I have come to realize that I have a very good memory. It is not quite photographic, but probably very close to it. I am able to remember certain events very distinctly; from my feelings, to the looks on others’ faces, to the reactions from an event. Over the years this has been both a…

  • Help: Never Be Afraid To Ask!

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    As my tagline states, this blog is dedicated to encouraging mothers, teachers, wives, and those in the ministry. This will probably be one of the few posts that covers all four of those areas in one. It is also something that I have both struggled with and benefited from over the years. Teachers I am…

  • There’s Nothing Like His Presence

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    I was at a baby shower over the weekend and they had worship music playing in the background. At one point  “Your presence is Heaven to me” began playing and it just stuck with me. My plan was to request that we sing it for worship on Sunday morning, but when I walked to the…