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Growing Up and Celebrating the Multitude of "Firsts" in this First Year
It is incredible how quickly this year of Claire’s has flown by, and how many milestones she’s already bulldozed past. So many of those “firsts” are still so fresh to me. Her first bath, the first time...
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Redeeming Motherhood: Elizabeth's Story
Redeeming Motherhood is a series of posts where women open up about some of the struggles they've faced as mothers and how the Lord has redeemed those situations and brought beauty from them. Check out...
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Dear Claire: 9 Month Update
(I've been writing monthly updates to my daughter, Claire, documenting all the changes that come with the passing weeks. You can catch up on past letters here.)Dear Claire,Oh, Claire. That little girl...
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"Lift Your Hands to the Lord for the Lives of Your Children"
It was the middle of the night, when Claire awoke screaming. When she was first born, everyone said I’d learn what her cries meant. I never was able to discern a “hungry” cry from a “wet” one from a...
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Getting Back on the Cloth Diaper Wagon
When I was pregnant with Claire, I fully intended to cloth diaper. I was cloth diapered, and I watched my mom cloth diaper my siblings. It was normal to me. I looked at the bags of dirty disposables...
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My Cloth Diaper Essentials
This week, I'm talking about my experience cloth diapering my daughter from birth. As I mentioned in my previous post, I made the decision when I was pregnant to start off my cloth-diapering journey...
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My First Time Trying an All-In-One Cloth Diaper (And a Chance to Win Your Own!)
When it comes to deciding how you're going to cloth-diapering, there are lots of factors to take into account, but usually it will come down to one of two: Cost, or Convenience? For my foray into the...
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My Favorite Cloth Diaper For a Perfect Fit
One of the most difficult elements of cloth diapering is getting your diapers to a perfect fit. So many of them are created to pull double- and triple-duty by fitting a baby at various stages of growth...
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Merry Christmas!
Wishing you and yours a wonderful and warm, bright and beautiful, precious and perfect holiday this year. I'll be back at the beginning of the New Year with new posts. In the meantime, I hope each of...
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The Only Resolution That Really Matters
Happy New Year! I hope the holidays treated you and your family well. With this new year of ours oftentimes comes new plans and goals and all varieties of resolutions. While I’m not much of a...
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My Busy-Mom Bible Study Plans for 2014
Last year when I started my own Bible study plan I had good intentions. The goal was to slow down and go through specific scriptures at a more indepth pace so that I could really get to know the...
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My 3 New Favorite Study Bibles
I’ve found that one of the key elements when it comes to reading through and understanding the Bible has been to have a good study Bible that is filled with helpful footnotes, explanations and...
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Why I Didn't Pick "One Little Word" For the New Year (But What I'm Doing...
A year is a long time. A year ago, I was still in the ignorance-is-bliss stage of expectant motherhood, with three months to go before I was to give birth to Claire. A lot can happen in a year.And so,...
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Dear Claire: 10 Month Update
(I've been writing monthly updates to my daughter, Claire, documenting all the changes that come with the passing weeks. You can catch up on past letters here.)Dear Claire,At 10 months, I know you’re...
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Childbirth: A Window into Motherhood
When I was still pregnant and looking forward to having a natural childbirth because I felt like it was what God wanted for me, it only made sense to me to mine the Scriptures for truths that would...
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Hello, I’m a Mom and I’m Jealous of You
I’ve written a lot about what a struggle Claire’s infancy was for me, dealing with a baby who was constantly demanding with cries and forever fighting sleep. She never seemed happy and frankly, neither...
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Letting Go the Grip of Comparison in Motherhood and Discovering Grace
I wrote about the epiphany I had about the bitterness my heart had been harboring toward the suffering I’d experienced when Claire was a newborn and the jealousy I had toward women who were blessed...
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Me and Sanctification: A Love/Hate Relationship
I have a love/hate relationship with sanctification. (If you’re wondering about “sanctification,” here's an in-my-own-words definition: It’s basically the life-long process that the Lord walks us...
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Dear Claire: 11 Month Update
(I've been writing monthly updates to my daughter, Claire, documenting all the changes that come with the passing weeks. You can catch up on past letters here.)Dear Claire,You are now just one month...
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A Little Relief for Your Winter Woes
It's winter here in Ohio, and of course as luck would have it, it has been increasingly cold. There’s snow on the ground that falls fresh as soon as it’s melted away. We’re breaking cold-temperature...
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