When Life Gives You Lemons

Make Lemonade, right? Or in our case, when Target gives you a Gingerbread House that refuses to stay together… Eat it. While our annual Gingerbread House construction did not go quite as planned, we did partake in what I can only hope will be a new tradition over the weekend when we attended the boat […]

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Read with Kleenex

Today I want to give you a few links to some of the most powerful words I’ve read on the internet these last few months.  These writers are real, honest and have an incredible knack for weaving word pictures in such a way that makes you stop cold and think deep. Refreshing. The pastor of […]

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The value of a man

Earlier today, Albert Pujols signed a massive deal that took him out of the Cardinals uniform and put him into an Angels uniform….and all hell broke loose.  I heard the wailing all the way down here.  Mournful weeping. Gnashing of teeth. As I heard the details, I was struck by only one thing: how has […]

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What if we all slowed down?

We wandered through the brush, the bristled fronds scraping against our bare arms.  December 7 and in shorts.  This is the things dreams are made of. We stopped and peered inside the little windows and I let my mind wander.  Who were they that lived there then?  What sounds filled their homes in a time […]

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Just me and my thoughts

The title of this post alone should scare you all.  I am welcoming you into my thoughts? Frightening. Because the truth is, I can go from thinking of something super brilliant and kinda deep to thinking up alternate lyrics to popular songs in the same breath.  “So, Kelli.  What ARE your favorite made up alternate lyrics?” […]

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Just Call Me Grandma

“You are definately having trouble converging,” he said pulling the spidery metal contraption off my face.  “And you’re a bit nearsighted.” And I was all, “Um…excuse me, what?” SIT DOWN! Try taking three kids to the optometrist and NOT sounding like you have Tourette’s.  Try it.  I dare you. *sigh* I’ve gotten ahead of myself.  […]

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The Brazen Laver

“You shall also make a laver of bronze, with its base of bronze for washing; and you shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar…” Exodus 30:18 I brought him home from the hospital, his hair aglow in the soft afternoon light.  Looking at him, the sleeping cherub with the bowtie mouth, […]

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The Doctor is In

First, let me start off by saying I thought up all manner of cheesy titles for this post involving doctors.  I finally settled on this one – the most cheesy and least inappropriate of them all. Disclaimer #2: I really try hard not to push a lot of products on you all over here.  I’ve […]

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Lazy Monday

I think I’m still in a turkey coma.  Actually, it’s not so much the turkey as it is the stuffing, salad, pies and petit fors that have rendered me all but useless.  My brain has slowly shut down over the weekend. It’s lovely. This morning, as the alarm sang in my ear, begging me to […]

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Humbly Grateful or Grumbly Hateful

As a child sitting in the back seat of my parent’s Cutlass Supreme, I remember belting out the words to this song: Are you Humbly Grateful or Grumbly Hateful? What’s your attitude? Do you grumble and groan, Or let it be known You’re grateful for all God’s done for you? On days when the tasks […]

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