I love Spring! It is one of my favorite seasons. Everything comes to life, everyone heads outside, and we turn our focus to the sacrifice that Jesus made for us. When possible, I love to combine our sensory play with holidays and seasons, so I grabbed a few bags of jelly beans while I was at the grocery yesterday. I…
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Parenting is not for the faint of heart, but if you are a parent you already know that. A few weeks ago, our oldest began to be spiritually attacked while his Dad & I were at a huge event for our foster and adoptive ministry. We came home to a terrified little boy, that has since struggled with nightmares and…
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I love planning birthday parties. I know that may make me over the top, but I start looking for ideas on Pinterest six months in advance. It is a creative outlet for me, and a way that I can show my love for my kids. That said, while looking at said blogs on Pinterest to plan my kids’ birthdays, I…
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I remember it like it was yesterday. We were thick in the season of “terrible twos” while simultaneously adjusting to life with a newborn and living through the life crisis of having to move home from the mission field. Life had been hard. Life had been scary. Life had been tense. Until one day the tension became too much and…
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I tried to fill the boys’ stockings this Christmas with things they would actually use instead of cheap trinkets that I would be trying to sneak and throw away a few weeks later. (Please tell me that I’m not the only one that does this.) In Auggie’s stocking, I added some magnetic wands. We had quite a bit of fun…
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