Boy Quotes
Theo–“I saw it and knew immediately how to do it. You two are old people and can’t learn.”
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Author: Kristen
All Smashed Together
Before I could share with my husband and receive a loving hug of encouragement, our youngest shoved past my writing chair and pounded his fist on the bathroom door. Snarls or rage and pain answered back and I knew that our middle son must have been putting in his contacts at that exact moment, stabbing himself in the eye … again.
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The Altar
It is humble. The crowded coffee table is at my right, a stack of laundry baskets boiling over with clean cloths is at my left, and my writing chair is just behind me. Sometimes the dog creeps into it and I have to shoo her away before I write. Nonetheless, in the quiet darkness of the early morning, after I study God’s word but before I open my computer to write, I kneel.
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Lake Valhalla and An Imaginary Camp
Has a real setting every sparked a story in your mind?
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Mom Movie Nights
As one’s adorably rambunctious sons turn into charmingly grumpy teens, it can be difficult to find fun things to do with them that they still love. Thus, the Mom Movie Night was born!
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Boy Quotes
Theo–Generously offers to do the dishes one time if I will let him take a hunter’s safety course, shoot a coyote, and then practice amateur taxidermy in my kitchen sink!
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Ice burg Surfing
So … how do my sons spend their time once I pry them away from their video games and kick them outside? Ice Burg Surfing!
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Mt. Rainier National Park
For our “Family Adventure” this year (we have stopped calling them vacations as that word makes one think of ridiculous things like relaxation and calm) we went backpacking at Mount Rainier National Park.
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