31 Days: Live Intentional {Day 16} October 16, 2009

October 16, 2011

October 16, 2009, after spending two days in Seattle with Andrea and Ale, Mom flew home by herself. I did not go to the airport to pick her up—the girls had ballet, and she said it wasn’t really a big deal. I hurried over the next morning to see her. Ready to hear all about [...]

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31 Days: Live Intentional {Day 14} Unabashed Blog Promotion

October 14, 2011

Too tired to think. The kids are in bed—finally. But still awake. Dinner dishes are stacked in the sink. My sheets are in the dryer. CC carry-all-tote is still in the middle of the living room floor. Couch cushions are askew. Tufts of old-man-dog-shedding-his summer-coat hair are in the corners of the living room. Hubby-dear  [...]

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31 Days: Live Intentional {Day 13} Twas the Night before CC

October 13, 2011

Twas the night before CC, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, except Mama mouse. The notebooks were stacked by the door with great care, In hopes that the morning of Day 2 would soon be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of experiments danced in [...]

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31 Days: Live Intentional {Day 12} Filling in the Blanks

October 12, 2011

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could… Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Checking things off my list always feels good—especially the days when there are more [...]

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31 Days: Live Intentional {Day 10} Gobsmacked by Indulgence

October 10, 2011

“We learn to live differently BY LIVING DIFFERENTLY, not by thinking about living differently.” My cheek is red. I can still feel the sting from the slap on my face. I hear, “Wake up, wake up. Open your eyes before it’s too late.” My hand rises to touch the spot where I’ve just been hit. [...]

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31 Days: Live Intentional {Day 9} Who am I?

October 9, 2011

“Are you really even a Christian?” Huh? Maybe I didn’t hear her right. She paused for a minute. “I’ve never said anything like this to anyone,” she went on, “but I felt like the Lord really wanted me to ask you.” Dead silence. Neither one of us spoke, nor did we make eye contact. We [...]

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31 Days: Live Intentional {Day 8} Etsy Eye-Candy

October 8, 2011

7:00 am The alarm started buzzing—way too early after night of night migrating. I got up, put the coffee on, and roused the girls out of bed. The boys continued to sleep soundly. The girls and I left the house, and headed to a morning of Suzuki violin lessons. 1:00 pm Drive home, make lunch, [...]

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31 Days: Live Intentional {Day 7} “Let the Games Begin,” The Woman Said.

October 7, 2011

Racing out the door, he slammed the screen shut. I could hear the pitter patter of his feet as I watched from the front window inside the house. He rounded the corner at break-neck speed and bolted straight for Poor Old White—our trusty ’93 Volkswagon Eurovan. I smiled and gathered up the last of my [...]

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31 Days: Live Intentional {Day 5} Yep. It’s Day 5

October 5, 2011

I upped the ante today. Made a list of THREE whole things I wanted to get done—work on the look of the blog, finish any last minute CC stuff, and pencil out a school schedule for the kids and a daily schedule for me. Well…I guess that’s actually four things on my to do list, [...]

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31 Days: Live Intentional {Day 4, Found Post!} — One Thing, and One Thing Only

October 5, 2011

After my ugly, self-indulgent, self-wallowing, pity party yesterday, I decided, while reclining in my warm morning-bed, I really can’t/couldn’t let things get much worse. After all how long do I want to go on looking up from the bottom of the basement? Not another bloody day, I concluded. And, today is a new day. (Yippee!) A [...]

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