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Matti Mattila (This is a re-post from January 2012 when the twins were just six months old and my older kids were 3 and 5. It was a crazy time. This January I’m working full time and my kids are sick (as is par for the course come January) – it...
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Photo credit Often, it’s a restless night and bad dreams that tell me I forgot. Other times it’s the way I snap and growl at my children in the morning. It’s not that they’re worse than normal, but I’m less tolerant, carrying my own internal agitation...
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Our stove was broken. The oven burned everything and the biggest burner, the one I used every meal, either ran on high or not at all. It was one more thing we didn’t have time for, didn’t have money. Not long ago, when our finances led me to consider...
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Photo Source. Only the worst kind of parent hopes that the slow, cold, July rain doesn’t let up in time for fireworks. Or maybe it’s only the worst kind of parent who decides, even after the rain lets up, not to take the kids to fireworks after all. And, in...
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This giant Maple is one of many shady spots at our house. They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze . . . Genesis 3 It’s hot, humid, and I’m sweating just sitting in the evening shade. Crisscrossed in the green...
