Last week, my husband and I braved the cold and shopping mobs and hit the stores at 4 a.m. the Friday after Thanksgiving. We’ve never done that before (and we probably never will again), but since we were in town this year, and our son was staying overnight with Grammy, we decided, “why not?” We

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Well, the Fox17 series they were doing on our family has finished with this week’s segments they aired over Thanksgiving. I have to admit I cried every time I watched them – especially the Homecoming part. Laura Faber, the anchor for the station and the reporter responsible for the series, said there weren’t many dry

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A new article is up on lifeway.com that they asked me to write on leaving a legacy to your kids. This was one of the deadlines I’ve had this week. Off to finish another. It never fails – when I accept one, I get two or three others at once. Feast or famine. That’s the

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Well, I’m a little late on this and I could go into all the things that have kept me away from blogging the last few days but mainly I’ve been processing what it was I wanted to say for this, my 100th post. We celebrated Veteran’s Day this weekend but that’s probably too strong a

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I will be the first to admit that cooking is not one of mine. When Cliff was deployed, I SOOO looked forward to the day he returned home and started helping with the cooking duties again. He cooks meat very well… I’m really good at burning it. I will say he’s lousy at macaroni and

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That’s the topic of a new book my friend Jennifer is working on, and she needs your help! She’s looking for your stories of how God has spoken to you. Here’s a few more details… I am in the process of collecting stories for this new book about all of the different ways that God

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Corrie asked me to pass on the word about the American Freedom Festival, sponsored by the American Freedom Foundation, which takes place this weekend, Saturday, Nov. 10, in Washington, D.C. The American Freedom Foundation (http://www.americanfreedomfoundation.org/ ) is a 501(c)3 public benefit corporation organized to honor veterans of America’s armed forces and raise money and awareness

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