Motherhood
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Farmhouse Style
Years and years and years ago, I picked out a farmhouse style house plan with wrap-around porch. I don’t know why, but it just appealed to me. It had three dormers but only 1600 square feet. Pretty small, but it had everything I needed. Many years later I married Emmett, and as we were talking about house styles we both wanted the same thing. Kind of eerie actually. But we both loved the three dormer farmhouse with wrap around porch. So…here we are. We’ve been married five years and have talked about our new house for that long (possibly longer). After months of planning and preparation and construction, we now…
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Siblings
As I’ve gotten older, I have been able to see puzzle pieces start coming together. Pieces that I thought had been lost throughout the years, or ones that didn’t have a place in my life. They are finding their way to a more complete picture. It’s awe-inspiring to see how God works in the most minute portions of your life, even when you don’t see it happening at the time. Gwen was born when Hunter was 16 months old. I brought her home on Thanksgiving day, and I remember being sleep deprived and already exhausted. Praying that Hunter would be okay with her. For sixteen months he had been the…
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A Miracle
Sometimes I forget what God has done for me. It’s easy to get lost in what I don’t have, and stuck on the prayers that haven’t been answered the way I wanted them to be. But on the way to church last night I was watching the glow of the Christmas lights against the crystal clear sky, suspended in those silent moments between sunset and nightfall. We passed the stalks of long dead corn and I was reminded of Indiana, and a long ago time in my life when I had cried out to God. It was another December car ride 17 years ago. We were traveling to the hospital…
