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Good Mom/Bad Mom?

The weeks leading up to Charlotte’s Birthday I was getting really frustrated with her inability/unwillingness to keep her room clean. She is a total pack rat and has so much stuff in her little room. Everyday I would nag her to get it cleaned. Everyday it would still be messy. I offered incentives. I gave consequences. Nothing was working. So,…

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Sexual Relationships

When you are 23 and you get news that will change your life forever and then you hear a still small voice in your heart telling you that one day you will tell others the story of what you are going through at that very moment…..you never forget it. In the past couple years God has been opening up more…

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Senior Chapel

Excuse the tears and nostalgia over the next couple weeks. My oldest is preparing to leave the nest and that is just plain surreal. Three years ago we visited Berean Christian High School to see if it would be a better fit for Hailey. The public school was just not the right fit for her. However, private high school was…

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Hailey’s last horse lesson

So remember I told you to excuse my nostalgia? Well, it might be coming out in full force this week before Hailey leaves for the summer. From ages 6-9 Hailey rode western and loved it; and then on a fluke, she changed over to English when she turned 9. Enter, David Acord, the best trainer ever. Today was Hailey’s last…

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