Feb
16
2013
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My youngest daughter is choosing her classes for next year.
It will be her senior year in high school.
She will be taking physics as her science class.
My daughter is very creative.
Even though she does well, science is not her favorite subject.
I remember taking physics in high school.
I remember thinking that it was an applicable science.
It still did not interest me as much as writing stories or reading books.
Feb
14
2013
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The mail came.
There was a small envelope addressed to me.
I opened it up to find a valentine.
A simple card…signed only with Your secret admirer.
I was a sophomore in high school.
I kept that card in my room trying to imagine who could have sent it to me.
There was a boy I admired from afar…
But he was quiet…studious.
It couldn’t be from him!
Feb
8
2013
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My youngest daughter is home sick today with a fever.
A dear friend checked in with me to see if there was anything I needed at the store.
It was so sweet of her…but I had already gone food shopping…while my daughter slept.
I remember the days when I couldn’t do that.
Days when my children were too young to be left alone.
I was never a big temperature taker when they had a fever.
A mother knows when her child is sick.
Their eyes don’t dance!
Jan
31
2013
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Have you ever noticed that children do not know how to tell time on an analog clock?
Since most clocks are digital, learning to tell time on a face clock seems outdated for some.
You must be very intentional to teach children how to tell time this way.
I think it makes it more visual for them…and helps them understand increments of time.
I admire old clocks….especially when they chime.
A dear friend of mine does not like the sound of a chiming clock.
Hearing the chime every fifteen minutes is too much for her.
Jan
30
2013
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There were two, older women my mother would invite to our home for Sunday dinner.
They were sisters and they lived in a beautiful old house in the city.
To this day, I do not know if they had ever married…or they were widowed.
They were almost like aunts to my mother…and by default, great-aunts to me.
They were very sweet.
They knitted and crocheted beautifully.
They made me a lovely afghan for my bed…and always brought presents when they visited.
Jan
19
2013
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I met a friend and her daughter for breakfast the other morning.
I tried to give myself enough time to finish things here and get there on time.
I don’t know about you…but I always think I can do that one more thing!
That one more thing sometimes makes me five minutes late.
I made up my mind that this particular morning…I would not do that one more thing.
I planned to arrive on time…perhaps a bit earlier.
I was very delighted that things were moving along.
This just might be the morning!
Jan
16
2013
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This winter has brought its fair share of germs.
Colds, coughs, fevers, achy-ness.
Getting rest, drinking fluids, washing hands more often is mandatory.
Germs will find you when you least expect it.
Having five children, I remember when everyone seemed to get sick at the same time.
Sometimes a few would be sick at once, but often it went down the line…one after another.
As a mother, I always felt as if I wanted to open every window in the house.
Let the fresh air in…and the stale air out.
Jan
3
2013
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The mystery of socks.
One always seems to get lost in the laundry.
A sock may even fall out of the basket as the laundry is being brought downstairs.
It lies there…lonesome…forlorn…on the steps…waiting!
Socks tend to get holes in them…one at a time.
Mending socks always leaves an annoying bump of thread that is not pleasant to walk on.
I throw the torn sock away and save the good one in the back of the drawer.
Inevitably another sock will get a hole in it…then two good socks become a new pair.
Jan
2
2013
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The Christmas decorations are all packed away.
Packed away until next year…if God allows.
The house has been decorated since the day after Thanksgiving.
Even though the tree was watered faithfully, it still dropped a lot of needles.
I know it is inevitable that the externals of Christmas get packed away.
I am mindful of the fact that the internals of Christmas are ongoing.
They are alive and well in the heart of every believer in Jesus Christ.
Alive because HE is alive in their heart.
Dec
28
2012
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When everyone is home we always try to do some planned family things.
We enjoy going out to dinner to a favorite restaurant.
We usually try to go to a current movie that everyone wants to see.
This time the movie was Les Miserables.
Les Miserables was published in 1862 by Victor Hugo.
It is known as a French historical novel…one of the greatest novels of the 19th century.
It is so much more than that.