Tag: family
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A Letter to my 18 Year Old Self
With graduations, the end of school year, and a new season about to begin, I have felt that this letter really needed to be written. Not really even to myself, but for the other young women, young girls, and women out there. For all you “dears” out there. For you, because you may be like…
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Between the Spitups and the Blowouts
One of my earliest memories as a new mother of three, was when Coen, my youngest was about two weeks old and I decided to break all three kids out of the house for a stroll to the park. I took them by myself, pushed Coen in his stroller and the older two rode their…
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From Your Home to Mine
Recently we did a really fun thing. We planned a family dinner with some friends of ours. These friends are old-yet-new in a way, meaning that even though we have “known” them for a long time, we are just now getting to know them in a deeper way. Hence the dinner. At some point during…
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The green shoes that nearly did me in and the whisper that turned this sinking ship around
I have realized something this week that I never fully realized before. ALL THREE OF MY CHILDREN ARE STRONG WILLED. What. Is. Happening. They each have different degrees of strong willed sprits, but this past week I learned that they were so much stronger than I ever thought. It all started with the hunt for…
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Under the Surface
At our house, we LOVE blackberries. Over the past five years Derick has slowly planted and cultivated about forty plants, so that when blackberry season arrives—we have berries a plenty. This year as I was picking berries I started to notice from a few feet away that there would be these HUGE berries hiding directly…
Sarah Says Believe 