Category: Inspiration and Joy
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Do you like a fresh start?
Even as we are wrapping up the current Bible in 90 Days session here on MomsToolbox, school has just begun for many of you and it is still the time for fresh starts. Today I am sharing what I love about fresh starts over on Tommy Nelson’s Raising Faithful Kids. Here’s a preview of what…
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Honest Prayer: Our best tool for growing our children’s faith
“Dear God, thank you for making Mrs. Cindi’s house look like it was slimed,” my husband said as he started the blessing before dinner. We all giggled a bit, but we did so with grateful hearts. Our area has been in a drought for quite some time and a dear friend who lives about 35…
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Losing weight and getting fit with a personal trainer
Does the site of this make you a little nervous? Do you have any clue what to do with all of these? The gym kind of freaks me out. Yes, I can ride my bike 180 miles in two days each spring, but the idea of exercising on funky equipment or using weights totally intimidates…
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Any tips for NOT sampling the frosting.. and the candy and…
Last week I re-joined WeightWatchers. And, even though I had a crazy traveling fiasco that left me in the airport MUCH longer than anticipated last weekend, and even though I attended my grandmother’s 100th year birthday celebration weekend with some delicious meals, I still had a fantastic first week with a great loss. I am…
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Texas fires, natural disasters and an invitation to pray with me
Two days again my husband showed me a picture a friend of ours snapped from her house. The fires were getting dangerously close to her home in Magnolia, Texas. She and her husband were dousing their roof as best they could and preparing to get the evacuation call. Fires were destroying homes. People were looting…