My first child was born the week before I graduated from college with a bachelor's degree in family science. I had taken and aced classes on marriage, parenting, family finances, family meal planning, family life, and child development. I had listened to countless lectures about family issues, read …
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We sat in a circle with our knees touching, making a pen out of our bodies—a pen that contained two of the fluffiest, most silky-smooth bunnies you've ever seen. The kids and I stroked their fur until the one named Lily (a boy bunny who was clearly named by the little girls who own him) hopped …
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It's likely that I was showing off for boys, which makes it 100 times more embarrassing. It was elementary school recess, and my friends and I were seeing who could kick their leg highest, cheerleader style. I was sure I had this competition in the bag, so I gave it a good wind-up and kicked with …
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The other day at school pickup, I yawned—the kind of yawn that is much too big to cover up—and said to a friend, "I don't even have an excuse! I just woke up from a nap." She looked at my incredulously, adding that she almost never sits down during the day and can't remember the last time she …
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How many things around your home and in your life do you tolerate (but not accept)? The shoes that get left out, the dishes someone placed in the sink instead of the dishwasher, the way your children pick apart what they like and dislike about every meal you make... -- I climbed into our …
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"There should always be a healthy tension between the life we have settled for and the desires that still call us." John O'Donohue One of the messages that threads this website together is my voice saying, you do enough, you are enough, you don't need MORE. When I first got it in my head to …
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