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April 15, 2017

7 Quick Takes Friday: Missing shoes, birthday celebrating, loving God’s creation, saving a turkey, and more

Somehow between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning we lost a pair of shoes.I am 93 percent sure both children were wearing shoes when I picked them up from school Wednesday.I am 82 percent sure they were wearing shoes when they walked into the house.I am 25 percent sure we will
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April 15, 2017

7 Quick Takes Friday: Why I’m blogging every day, soccer, sheep, shoes, Saturdays, public restrooms, and more

This week I am blogging about our lives every day for the Week In My Life series Kathryn is hosting at Team Whitaker. I have no time to do this. Truly, I don’t. I have been spending the week doing writing for my full-time job in the evenings, and that
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April 15, 2017

Counting our blessings: Prayers to enhance your family’s Thanksgiving feast

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.  
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April 15, 2017

7 Quick Takes Friday: Thanksgiving highlights, our first family basketball game, preparing for first reconciliation, and Advent is coming

How was your Thanksgiving celebration? Ours was everything I hoped it would be—delicious food, good conversation, and very little effort involved on my part. Next year maybe I will do more than bring the whipped cream, but this year that was about all I seemed to be able to manage.This
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April 15, 2017

7 Quick Takes Friday: We found the Advent wreath, class participation, lasagna chefs, home decor, doorway acrobatics, and more

Advent started! Luckily our kindergartener came home from school with a wreath he had made, reminding us to find our larger wreath.Then we added Advent calendars to the mix because nothing says, “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel,” like the Avengers and little pieces of chocolate.We haven’t even started filling our
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April 15, 2017

7 Quick Takes Friday: Birthday excitement, St. Nicholas came, Advent moments, the games we play (and why I lose), free cookies, and more

Today our kindergartener turns 6! From the birthday boy’s perspective, this day has been forever coming. Every day for so long he has been saying that it would never, ever come. But today it’s here!I can hardly imagine how we will get through the day with all the excitement! I will
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April 15, 2017

Grief and mourning during the holidays: How to cope when you aren’t feeling jolly

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal; Love leaves a memory no one can steal.
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April 15, 2017

7 Quick Takes Friday: How we celebrated turning 6, a trip to the police station, how ready we are (or aren’t) for Christmas, an Elf on the Shelf update, Star Wars cookies, and other fun

We didn’t throw a friends’ party for Daniel this year, but don’t worry. He had a fantastic birthday. He actually burst into a spontaneous dance before opening his gifts. He took munchkins to school and it happened to be the day when the children get to shop for little gifts
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April 15, 2017

7 Quick Takes Friday: The Christmas 2015 edition

Merry Christmas! Ready or not, Christmas has come. And at least half of our family has been awaiting this moment for 364 days. As I write this on Christmas Eve, I am wondering what time I will wake up on Christmas morning.We put a clock in our boys’ room with
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April 15, 2017

Looking back with gratitude and forward with hope: My top ten blogs for 2015 and a prayer for the new year 2016

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called “Opportunity” and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” —Edith L. PierceHappy New Year:It is a mystery as old as life itself when we realize how quickly the~
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April 15, 2017

7 Quick Takes: Happy New Year, setting reasonable goals, a patron saint, advice, Rudolph’s Chinese New Year, and some of my favorite blogs from 2015

Happy New Year! It’s a leap year, too! So very exciting. I only know two people with Feb. 29 birthdays, but this year they will get to celebrate on their birthday for the 10th time. That means I am turning 40 later this year, but let’s not dwell on that,
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April 15, 2017

7 Quick Takes Friday: A houseguest for the week, reading at night, a little Shel Silverstein, trains, shorts, and children’s behavior at Mass

Just when I was starting to miss our Elf on the Shelf—and I say that with no sarcasm because I actually do miss the morning hunt for Skylander—a new houseguest arrived for the week: Pete the Cat!Pete is the stuffed friend in our son’s kindergarten classroom who paid us a
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