Posted in Books, Marriage, Mothering, tagged Nonfiction on January 3, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Title: The Birth Order Book: Why You Are the Way You Are
Author: Dr. Kevin Leman
Publisher: Revell
ISBN: 080075977X
Length: 362 pages
Synopsis: This is a conversational, anecdotal book that attempts to get inside the head of children and adults based on their birth orders. With a blend of popular psychology and family counseling (and just an occasional hint of [...]
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Posted in Christmas, Mothering on December 22, 2007 | No Comments »
I was busy in the kitchen tonight baking and cleaning and listening to the radio. The song “Breath of Heaven” came on, and since I had no distractions, I was able to listen to the words for the first time. Once again, there into the dishwater, I shed a few tears. Why is it that God [...]
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Posted in Faith, Mothering on December 17, 2007 | No Comments »
Isn’t this so true in parenting? Who hasn’t heard her own voice in miniature pipe up with some replayed comment from earlier in the day? Like a bad VCR that only records the regrettable, my children remind me of just how imperfect I am. This happened to me just a little while ago. Lulu and Louise were [...]
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Posted in Mothering on December 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
One of the biggest surprises about motherhood for me has been just how tired it makes me mentally. Ever since Lulu was oh, about 2 1/2, she has been on a constant quest for ANSWERS. Louise, being the younger sibling that she is, picked up the habit at even an earlier age. This habit of theirs is [...]
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Posted in Mothering on December 5, 2007 | No Comments »
Monday night as Steady Eddie, the girls, and I decorated the Christmas tree, Lulu and Louise were excited beyond words. My girls are nothing if not verbose and verbally proficient, and being excited tends to bring out the most entertaining and interesting statements from them. Lulu, in particular, was in her prime tonight. We had a great time looking [...]
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Posted in Mothering, Scrapbooking on November 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Lulu is growing up, slowly but surely, right before our eyes. From the time she was four months old, she sucked the middle and ring fingers on her right hand for comfort or out of boredom. When I read on Mandi’s blog back in October that she was about to break her almost-three-year-old daughter of her [...]
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I had a rough mommy day yesterday. My three and a half year old, Lulu, is in what we shall call a high-maintenance stage of her life (well, more high-maintenance than usual, which is saying a lot), and Louise, my two year old has just run smack into the infamous Terrible Twos. Yesterday was our weekly Bible [...]
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I picked a fortuitous time to begin blogging and participating in Works-for-Me Wednesday over at Rocks in My Dryer, for this week’s WFMW is declared Backwards Day by Shannon! What that means is that I get to ask you, my beloved and unknown readers, a question. Since in our revolving bath schedule, yesterday was bath day here, the question [...]
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I admit it. I am a convert. I’ve been a blog lurker for several years, but I never thought I’d do it. Gulp. Here I am. Now what do I say? I’m not sure that anything I say will be of any interest to anyone but myself (and not always to me in retrospect, either, [...]
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