Author: Rachel
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First Day of School Fail
For the past three weeks, I’ve been counting down the days until the first day of school. When I bought my new planner, one of the first dates into the calendar was the first day of school. It was circled and had sunshine rays coming out of it. I couldn’t wait. You see, the temps…
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32 hours is all it took
On Friday, Nick came home and declared we needed a vacation. He was right. It had been a rough week or two. We’d been cooped up inside hiding from the ridiculously high temps and humidity and I was anxiously waiting to hear if Mariah had made it into PreK (another post coming on that situation).…
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Bye Bye Baby, Hello Toddler
As I edited last month’s pictures, I noticed something. My baby. Just last month with a pacifier in her mouth she was still a baby.
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Why’d you have to go and make things so complicated?
Someone could sing that line of Avril Lavigne’s song to me after almost every one of our “fun family outings”. The rest of the song doesn’t apply, but man that line sure does. I am not a spur of the moment, spontaneous person. Not at all. I’m a planner, a perfectionist. So our plans to…
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A Search for Peace and Joy
A year and a half ago I attended women’s night at my church. The theme was hope. My pastor was in the middle of a series of sermons about the same subject and we gathered at the beginning of spring to talk about hope and faith. When I left I kept reading the little handout…
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Toddler Sleep Training
If you’re a Facebook or real life friend, you’ve heard way too much about sleep issues in our home. I blogged a bit about it awhile ago too. We’ve been delusional and losing sleep since December. Yeah. That’s right, 8 months. Our child is only 18 months old. She was a great sleeper in the first…