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My First Parent Support Group Meeting
Read more: My First Parent Support Group MeetingLast week, on Thursday, I attended my first parent support group at Isaac’s school. If there’s a group I need right now, it’s this one, so I override my impulse to just listen. My voice cracks every time I say something, because I feel fragile, on the verge of tears. But it’s a positive vibe…
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How Sick Days Can Make A Mom Unravel
Read more: How Sick Days Can Make A Mom UnravelThe past few weeks have thrown me for a loop, and it all started with a few sick days. Not me being sick (initially), but my son. In some ways, this is the story of any parent whose child is home from school for a few sick days in a row, maybe with a little…
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The Scariest Thing About Halloween
Read more: The Scariest Thing About HalloweenIf you ask me, the scariest thing about Halloween isn’t the little ghosts, ghouls, and goblins, but the unhealthy haul of Halloween candy in their over-sized plastic pumpkins.
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A Holy Nap
Read more: A Holy NapAlmost every Sunday, shortly after the beginning of our church service, Isaac leans to one side, puts his his feet up on the pew, his head in one of our laps, and falls asleep. I’ve come to think of it as his holy nap.
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“The Worry Song” Update
Read more: “The Worry Song” UpdateRemember on Monday, when I posted “The Worry Song” for kids with anxiety? Well, something truly amazing happened…My childhood best friend asked if she could write a few verses to go along with my “delicious chorus.” Um, yes!
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For Kids with Anxiety: “The Worry Song”
Read more: For Kids with Anxiety: “The Worry Song”Life can be especially challenging for kids with anxiety. There are good resources out there. This is more of a fun resource, a little ditty that popped into my strange, creative mind…
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Faith and Parenting: Three Conversations
Read more: Faith and Parenting: Three ConversationsThree conversations around faith and parenting stand out. Two are beautiful examples of faith leaders speaking truth into hardship. The right words at the right time that sustained me for years after they were spoken. The third, not so.
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Book Reading: Saturday Surprise
Read more: Book Reading: Saturday SurpriseThis video of me reading Saturday Surprise, my first children’s storybook, was recorded in September of 2017, shortly after Hurricane Harvey hit the gulf coast, causing massive flooding in the Greater Houston area. Along with many others, I read my book and posted it as part of the “Hurricane Harvey Book Club” so that children…
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Guest Post | Christy Edwards on Autism and the Church
Read more: Guest Post | Christy Edwards on Autism and the Church“I just might have a problem that you’d understand, we all need somebody to lean on ….” Sitting in the stands watching my 10-year-old son sing the lyrics to this song took me back to every youth event I was a part of in the 80s. It made me smile. Jackson loves music. Performing before…
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If you don’t play …
Read more: If you don’t play …Motherhood was not at all what I expected when I was expecting. Sometime in my son’s early years, I thought, “If you don’t play, you can’t lose.”
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