Tag: raisingkids
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DON’T LET YOUR DREAMS KILL YOUR DREAM, PART 1
I have so much to process right now, and I don’t know how to express all that we’ve experienced and been through in the past 4 years. But here’s a snapshot of the past 2 years. The Lord put a dream in our hearts to start a farm. And 4 years ago, we followed that…
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DON’T LET THE DREAM KILL THE DREAMS, PART 2
We tried to sell the land. It didn’t work. We tried working with a realtor, but no one was willing to list it for what we wanted, or even at a bare minimum, what we owed. We sold our rabbits and chickens. (Except for my oldest son’s favorite rabbit. We kept her. More on that…
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HOW CAN A MOM FOCUS ON HER HEALTH?
I remember when my third child was born. I was so tired that it was a chore to function each day. I worked from home and was back working 3 days after I gave birth. There was no “napping when the baby napped” for me. I had a 5-year-old and a 22-month-old and a newborn…
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IS YOUR PRIDE KEEPING YOU FROM GOD’S BLESSING?
This season has been really hard financially. We live mostly paycheck to paycheck and have received a lot of help from our families off and on. It’s not something we’ve had to do much of in our 15 years of marriage. In fact, most of the time it’s been easy. I worked a 9-5 that…
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THERE ARE GIANTS IN THE LAND
After about 3 months of living in the promised land, I want to tell you something important. We often think that stepping into the promised land is easy. That’s it’s going to be a vacation. But I want you to know that there are giants in the land. When God spoke over us that we…
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4 KEY WAYS TO KEEP KIDS HEALTHY
We all want our kids to be healthy. We want them to thrive in life. But what does it take? When I had my first son I thought the key to healthy kids was some sort of mysterious thing. My oldest got sick a lot and while I followed all of the typical advice, it…