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Blessed Treehouse: September 2013
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Our House Blessing: A God Story. Sunday, September 21, 2014. What a month you were, September 2013. What a year it has been. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Blessed Treehouse: October 2013
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Our House Blessing: A God Story. Tuesday, September 30, 2014. October in Ohio - it is the most wonderful time of the year. Really truly, the song's got it all wrong. The kids jingle belling, the caroling out in the snow, the much mistletoeing - that's nice and all. But nothing beats the majesty of Fall. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Blessed Treehouse: August 2014
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Our House Blessing: A God Story. Thursday, August 28, 2014. I can't make this stuff up. Harper was playing outside when she came in from the garage. She was all Elsa-fied in her Frozen dress (that she dragged out of the laundry basket because she has worn it to filth), and I noticed that her hair was brushed. I said, "Wow, you look lovely. Did you brush your hair? She responded, "Mommy, I need to show you something.". She was holding a toilet wand. She brushed her hair with a toilet wand. August 2013 was...
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Blessed Treehouse: March 2014
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Our House Blessing: A God Story. Tuesday, March 25, 2014. I can't make this stuff up. I sat down to record some of the conversations that I am blessed to observe with and among my children, and I thought, why not share them on the blog. Surely I'm not the only one who might get a kick out of their innocent and often unintended humor. So whenever I think to record something, I'll file it under: I can't make this stuff up. Here's today's I can't make this stuff up. You look like a beautiful snow girl.
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Blessed Treehouse: I can't make this stuff up.
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Our House Blessing: A God Story. Thursday, August 28, 2014. I can't make this stuff up. Harper was playing outside when she came in from the garage. She was all Elsa-fied in her Frozen dress (that she dragged out of the laundry basket because she has worn it to filth), and I noticed that her hair was brushed. I said, "Wow, you look lovely. Did you brush your hair? She responded, "Mommy, I need to show you something.". She was holding a toilet wand. She brushed her hair with a toilet wand.
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Blessed Treehouse: October 2013
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Our House Blessing: A God Story. Friday, October 11, 2013. Her hijab glows persimmon. Her voice, soft yet firm as the fruit. Her years young, her spirit rich, a caged bird sings and her name a song. Malala, what would you do if a Taliban gunman comes after you? Peace, her song. The voice of the silenced, a generation of women raped, slaved, burned, flogged. Brutality stifles hope. Her attack leaves her crooked smiled and warrior spirited and a weapon in her mouth. Tuesday, October 8, 2013. The bus stops ...
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Blessed Treehouse: February 2014
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Our House Blessing: A God Story. Sunday, February 23, 2014. Loss and life in Spring. I can't honor April 2013 without honoring my cousin, James. My precious, beautiful cousin, the sweetest most gentle soul there ever was, lost his life the last week of March. We received the news while we were in Mexico, and it changed everything. He would have turned 30 last month. Here is my last text exchange with him, less than a month before he was gone. I miss him beyond words. Loss and life in Spring.
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Blessed Treehouse: April 2014
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Our House Blessing: A God Story. Thursday, April 3, 2014. I can't make this stuff up. Harper (age 4), about an hour after I trimmed her fingernails: "Mom, you cut my fingers and now I can't get the boogers out of my nose.". I cant make this stuff up.
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Blessed Treehouse: January 2014
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Our House Blessing: A God Story. Thursday, January 9, 2014. March 2013, take me back . . . to MEXICO! Forget that March is when I turned 33 (lame-o). Just take me back to the place where the sun burns away sorrows and blankets the people in bronze. All that to say, if I could do March 2013 over again, I would. And I wouldn't change one thing. Monday, January 6, 2014. And now I can't get that dang one-hit-wonder outta my head. Which means that February 2014 is the month my baby girl will turn TWO! However...
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Blessed Treehouse: November 2013
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Our House Blessing: A God Story. Saturday, November 16, 2013. How the Grinch stole Christmas from the Mothers of Preschoolers. And Claire. And so that’s how I found myself standing clam-palmed and rashy in front of a few round tables of darling mommas in the middle of November. And now it was my turn to stand up and blab on and on about my journey of simplifying life? Because that’s fair. Dammit, why was I there? Because the only thing I really care about since sitting at that table are the damn results ...
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