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Limitations

April 16, 2013

If there’s anything I really hate, it’s being limited. I don’t like being told I have to pick something — a major, a career, a path. I like having my options open. I like feeling like I can do anything. In pregnancy, you are immediately limited. Limited on what you can eat, do, what medicines [...]

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Growing up and standing up

March 21, 2013

I am wrapping up my last week in Texas. It’s considerably more mournful than I anticipated. I feel as though I am leaving a world behind. I am leaving friends, family, and opportunities behind. More importantly, I know that life will go on — so I feel as though I am being the one left [...]

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The Art of Being a Friend

November 29, 2012

I have a confession to make. Sometimes I am a really bad friend. I forget important things like birthdays. I don’t have the gift love language — I tend to forget to give gifts of any kind. I’m bad at Thank You notes. I forget to do the little things that mean a lot. I [...]

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I have a Bible.

October 18, 2012

I have a Bible. (Shocking, I know. But that’s not the point. Carry on.) I have a Bible and it’s really dear to me. It’s the one I currently use in the mornings and it’s the only study Bible I own (except my RSV from college). It’s falling apart. It has ripped at the top [...]

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Voicing the Struggle

October 16, 2012

Sometimes I have a hard time expressing how I feel. I have difficulty getting the thoughts out of my mind and onto paper. Sometimes, no matter how much I try to remind myself of God’s promises, I just can’t seem to hold onto them. I’m going through a little season of not feeling enough. Not good [...]

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Sometimes I hate leaving my house.

August 23, 2012

Today I went to the store. It was a necessity, as we were down to one roll of toilet paper and I didn’t want to be the person that reaches over and discovers two tiny one-inch strips of toilet paper, all while yelling, “NOOOOO!!!” in dramatic fashion. I decided to venture to our local Tom [...]

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Hope 2012: A Blog Relay

August 9, 2012

I was trying to decide if I had anything to write about this morning, and I had decided that I had nothing. While I was browsing through my reader, I found a post by the lovely Good Day, Regular People about a word that is intensely personal to me – Hope. It’s a blog relay [...]

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Finding my niche.

July 30, 2012

The question I have heard the most these last few weeks– “How are you liking your new place/town/state?” No matter how many times I’m asked, I am momentarily stumped. How can I put into words the myriad of emotions I feel? Do you ever feel something that is the opposite of what you know you [...]

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A mother’s quest

July 24, 2012

A milky blue haze of light creeping through the blinds It’s time to wake. Carefully, as to not wake anyone I tiptoe to the kitchen to begin brewing the liquid energy of adulthood in the semi-darkness I take my cup and ease quietly into the soft secondhand chair clutching my book and a pen– one [...]

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Welcome Texas. It’s nice to be back.

July 6, 2012

There’s really a fine balance between posting too much and not posting enough. I’ve spent enough time between posts in this instance that I have too much to say and therefore have nothing to say at all! An update: We are moved in our new apartment! I was initially really upset about not being able [...]