I know Halloween is now far in the past, what with all the Christmas displays up in malls and stores. But for me it feels like just yesterday. That’s probably because I spent November 1-5 in Seattle, WA, for a John Maxwell conference called Exchange. Highlights of that include touring the Boeing plant, visiting Microsoft, [...]

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So over the weekend, I made another recipe for pumpkin bread, and it was also delicious and cake-like. Unfortunately, it also totally fell in the oven. I haven’t baked something that could fall in, like, EVER. So it was a surprise. Let’s just say that it was a little DENSER than it was probably supposed [...]

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You know how on Sunday, I spent a lot of time philosophizing and navel-gazing? Well, that’s not all I did. I also spent some time baking. I was in the mood to make something with pumpkin, so I went in search of a pumpkin bread recipe. I have this odd habit of never using the [...]

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It’s Sunday afternoon, and I’m enjoying my usual spot on the couch, next to my football-watching husband. With the noise of the game in the background, I read the paper, visit Pinterest, Tweet, and write. It’s relaxing, in a strange, noisy way. Today, for most of the 1:00 game, I wrote in fits and starts. [...]

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I’m eating M&Ms. Dark chocolate. I don’t know why, but somehow telling you what’s going on this instant helps me get in a writing groove. So let’s see, what else is happening? I’m getting a cold sore-like thingy on my tongue from sucking on the aforementioned M&Ms. Does this stop me from eating them? No, [...]

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Like almost everyone’s these days, my birthday last Thursday began on Facebook. Greetings came in all day, pinging my phone over and over. Very heartwarming to see Happy Birthdays from so many people from my past and present. If Facebook is good for nothing else, it at least has increased the number of birthday greetings [...]

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“This is the first year that I can remember NOT wanting fall to arrive” -Charlie, the proud owner of a boat on a lake that’s getting progressively colder. It feels like the summer boating season ended abruptly last week. Suddenly, no one’s eager to go in the water because they know they’ll have to get [...]

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See Scruff. Scruff and Steph are friends. Scruff loves Steph.   See Steph. Look, Scruff! There is Steph! See Scruff see Steph. See Scruff jump on Steph. See Steph kick Scruff (more like a foot shove, really).   Scruff is not happy. Scruff wants to sit on Steph’s lap. Scruff wants to sleep in bed [...]

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The other night, Charlie and I were sitting out on the deck. Dinner was finished and the kids were doing the dishes. So we were just chillaxing. But after we’d been there 4-5 minutes, things started falling on us. At first I thought it was rain, because it was SUPPOSED to rain all day but [...]

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LC, Hannah and I were driving home from their Wednesday night middle school worship time, when we started talking about childbirth. (Doesn’t every family talk about that in the car?) “Mom, did you have any of us the regular way?” asked Hannah. Me: No, you were all C-sections. LC: You tried to get ME out [...]

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