Category: Home and Family

  • Christmas planning time is here!

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    Are you a Christmas planner type or do you like to wing it? I am moving into major Christmas planning mode this week and couldn’t be more excited. I’m thrilled to be visiting extended family for Thanksgiving and, this year, I will be bringing Santa’s sleigh with me and sharing gifts one month early there…

  • Real (Experienced) Mom Judy Douglass

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    I love the way the internet can bring people together. Not too long ago I was tweeting about my love of Global Media Outreach, when my tweet was retweeted and a relationship was born between two previous strangers. I have never met Judy in person (although, interestingly, we do know and cherish several of the…

  • Meet Cindy, a Real (Experienced) Mom who encourages us to pray

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    And she and her husband are a Bible in 90 Days graduates, too! I am thrilled to share Cindy’s story with you. Not only is it amazing and filled with wisdom on its own, but I told Cindy I wouldn’t post it until she finished reading the entire Bible. This post is a celebration of…

  • How do your towels get folded?

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    My husband doesn’t fold the towels the same way that I do. This troubled me for years. I appreciated that he was helping, but I was always re-folding so that the towels would stack perfectly in the cabinets. Never mind that other clutter was taking over my house, those towel cabinets needed to be straight!…

  • Text Google for directory assistance information

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    I used to be pretty regular user of directory assistance from my cellular phone. (I know, I know… I can almost hear all you frugal bloggers out there gasping.) But now I am a changed woman. I have finally put into practice something that the twenty-something girl at the cell-phone store taught me long before…