Welcome to my new site ya’ll! I’m extremely excited to finally have this sucker up. And when I say finally, I mean FINALLY. Sweet readers, I decided last November (!!!) to create a new site and move from Blogger to WordPress. I remember naively saying to a writing pal that I would use December to create the site and launch it…
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6 Ways to Support Foster Families
It was only a year ago that Nate and I started the process for becoming foster parents. Less than three months later we received our first placement. And much like welcoming a new baby for the first time, becoming foster parents rocked our world. Our normal lives suddenly involved so many new dynamics I felt like I was in a constant state of…
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Rethinking Family Devotions
One of my readers asked me to write a post on how the Lawrences do our family devotions. (GAH! I have READERS! This one doubles as my son’s Sunday School teacher, but details, details….) I am so happy to accommodate her request since I love to pretend I’m the expert on things. This picture is so misleading. Needing a picture of that couch…
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Bring On the Boring
So this is where I am today. And let me say from the front end, it’s not my finest hour. Because quite frankly I am little bit over all the hoopla and merry making that comes with our culture’s hyped up version of Christmas. We’ve done the light shows. We’ve made the cookies. We’ve seen the parades and we’ve hidden…
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The Gift I Gave Jesus, And What He Gave Me in Return
It’s been one year today. For three months I had been moping around, grieving the death of a dream to adopt from Haiti. Nathan had been trying in his own gentle ways to point me toward foster care and domestic adoption. But I was resistant. I didn’t think I could open my home and my heart to that kind of…
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Not Into Normal: More of Me than You Might Want to See
Today I decided to dig out the journal from 2013 and walk down memory lane. You know, since there’s nothing else to do around here and all. What with the three kids and the two dogs and the laundry and the two dozen toys my son wants me to replace batteries in and the party I’m hosting TOMORROW NIGHT. While enjoying…
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