12 years ago, I took a pregnancy test feeling certain the answer would be no. Again. For over a year and a half I had been taking many, many pregnancy tests, and for over a year and a half they refused to display that elusive second pink line. With every passing month, the mama-dreaming part of me hoping for the blasted…
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When You Feel Life Swirling
Holy Smokes, it’s been some weekend. It started with the real life fairytale of a genuine prince marrying a common girl, and that common girl becoming a genuine princess. I watched and relished every moment of the whole shebang. Friday afternoon my daughter and I left chilly, dry Colorado for warm, humid Texas where one sister lives and another sister…
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On Facebook, Good Books and a Storybook {Royal} Wedding
Howdy, Y’all! I’ve got a hodgepodge of fixings for you today! First: Chasing Blue Skies now has a facebook page. If you’d liked to connect this way, you can click here to like Chasing Blue Skies. I’ll be getting a facebook link up in the navbar lickety split. Also, I’ve been adding books and other reads to my refreshing resources page….
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Music on a Monday
Between snowy weather and a daughter with an ugly stomach bug, our Easter did not look as expected. In light of this, my bleary-eyed Monday has me moving slow and feeling behind. If putting the pedal to the metal is difficult for you on this Monday, too, let some music from two very talented Okies get you jumpstarted. If it…
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My Stars, That’s Big Love
God’s love is meteoric, his loyalty astronomic, His purpose titanic, his verdicts oceanic. Yet in his largeness nothing gets lost; Not a man, not a mouse, slips through the cracks. Psalm 36:5-6 (The Message) These words of enormous love make me stop and know: His grace is sufficient, limitless. I am seen, and so are you. I am enough,…
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When You Want to Really Bloom
He was the first man to tell me I was beautiful. His eyes showed complete sincerity when he said it, and he made my heart think I was pretty even if my head wasn’t convinced. He said what he felt and he meant it. And then there was that weekend he was away from campus, he was in the…
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All and All and All and Everything
This day charges ahead like many before. I get breakfast for the kids and pack lunches before taking them to school where I volunteer for their teachers before coming home to write a little and clean up around the house before picking the kids up from school and helping them with homework before making dinner. My head tells me…
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Grace Rhythms
This sweet thang is my aspiring percussionist, and his talent is pretty darn amazing. Of course, I’m his Mama, so I think just about everything he does is noteworthy. But as a former music teacher, I *do* have a leeetle more credibility in this area. So, I can say da boy haz talent and it’s totally legit. Word. Today…
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“No” Now, “Yes” Later
photo credit About 30 minutes into my morning, my plans for the day did a 180. A sick daughter will do that to plans. No attending the volunteer appreciation breakfast at school. No attending my Moms & Beyond meeting. Instead, a yes to a day at home with my usually-active-but-now-slowed-down-girl. And yes to extra snuggling as she grabs my hand…
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Mom Song Monday
Many of you have heard of Anita Renfroe and her hilARious “Mom Song” sung to the tune of William Tell Overture. One of our radio stations plays the Mom Song every Monday morning at 8am. Sometimes, the kids and I catch it on the way to school, and Every. Single. Time. we all crack up like we’ve never heard it before….
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How Not to Turn into Cruella DeVille
More than once I’ve been asked if I’m smokin’ something or if I’m hittin’ the hard stuff a little too early and often. Sometimes, I’m asked both on the same day. Now, while I do have an often cheery disposition, I can’t blame my personality all on genes. I get a kick out of God and He just makes…
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Uninviting Hurry {You Ain’t Welcome Around Here No More}
I can still see them, their 3 year old wee-watt legs peddling slow but sure. I pushed little sister, a newborn, in the stroller ahead of them and kept looking over my shoulder and calling, “Hurry or we’re gonna be late for swim lessons!” My twin boys would peddle like gangbusters then get distracted by a grasshopper or a rock….
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