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On Loving and Losing: Amy Welborn’s Wish You Were Here

by Filed Under: Minnesota Me, Reviews, Spiritual Growth, The Faith 12 Comments

Today is my niece Kellee’s birthday. She would be 26 years old today......if she had not been killed in a car accident when she was 19.Ironically—and yet, poignantly—she was on her way home from visiting her grandma (my mom) who was in the hospital recovering from bypass surgery.We were thinking we might lose my mother. Instead, we lost our … [Read more...]

Pretty Happy Funny Real

by Filed Under: Minnesota Me, PrettyFunnyHappyReal 12 Comments

Post Update: I fixed the links below so that you can see Regan & Jamie's butterfly collages too. It really is a darling, darling craft.The Overcoming-One's-Perfectionism EditionNow, I know that the dear ladies over at Like Mother, Like Daughter host this series on Thursday, not Friday. However, I've been running a day late and a dollar short … [Read more...]

Freaky Fursday

by Filed Under: Homeschooling, Minnesota Me, Motherhood, My Girls 6 Comments

Often the girls and I will linger over breakfast while I read them a story from this book. We had read Devotional Stories for Little Folks a few years back but I’ll tell ya, it’s a decidedly different experience with an (almost) all-girl audience.If you know what I mean.Today we read about their new little girl Rebecca, who was adopted from foster … [Read more...]

Prayers, Please

by Filed Under: Friends of the Heart, Minnesota Me, Prayer 5 Comments

Updated to Add: Kim is home but still needs prayers! Here is a link to her post: life - interrupted. Would you take a minute—or two…or three—to pray for my friend Kim today?Photo from Starry Sky Ranch PhotographyKim is a faraway friend of the internet sort. She is a beautiful, loving wife and mother whose amazing photography always encourages and … [Read more...]

Lemonade Stands and Gasoline Cans

by Filed Under: Anecdotal, Minnesota Me, Spiritual Growth 12 Comments

Alternately Titled: It’s a Small World After All On Monday my girls set up a lemonade stand. They have been asking to do a lemonade stand since, basically, the Reagan Administration…and Monday, finally, was the big day.(They made $7.00 and declared it a huge success.)Felicity came in at one point and said, “Mom? There’s a car out there whose lights … [Read more...]

Where were you?

by Filed Under: Minnesota Me, Special Events, The Faith, Tributes 8 Comments

Part IIWhere were you on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11?If you weren’t with your family, I hope you were with friends.Friends can be very much a part of our family, don’t you think?They’re the family members that we choose. ; )We were here on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11, “here” being the Cathedral of St. Paul. We were there for a couple of reasons: … [Read more...]

Where were you?

by Filed Under: Current Affairs, Minnesota Me, The Faith, Tributes 13 Comments

This post was originally published on September 11, 2009. Has it really been eight ten years? I remember September 11, 2001 as if it were… …well, as if it were the horribly inauspicious day that it was. The morning dawned bright and sunny here in Minnesota. I went for a walk while the rest of my family slept, and brought home a caterpillar to … [Read more...]

Letting Go of Life’s Little Imperfections

by Filed Under: Homeschooling, Just Me, Minnesota Me, Spiritual Growth 17 Comments

The Homeschooling EditionNot a lot of time for blogging today—thus the title of this post—but I wanted to share with you an area of my life where I could use much improvement.Because I am just that humble.If you ask your six-year-old to go get you the print-out, you may need to be okaywith your letter being crumpled. Are you okay with that?It’s … [Read more...]