How to break up with your Church

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The moment when you feel, "its not YOU, it's ME," with your church, when there are no bad feelings and nothing happened but it's just time to move on. Since I started working full time Monday- Friday and the boys have been in pre-school, I have felt like I haven't got to spend enough time with them, this coupled with the fact that Ben works every Saturday until almost 5 and it seems like we … [Read more...]

perception & transparency

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Later this week Bear has an appointment with a gastroenterologist (and yes, I spelled that right the first time!) at Children's Hospital. If you were about to click away to google what a "gastroenterologist" is, I'll just fill you in my layperson's terms: A stomach and intestines doctor who deals with all sorts of hard-to-diagnose issues. Which is what we have had for years with Bear, but it's … [Read more...]

old-fashioned conversation vs. culturally relevant jargon

I'll be the first to admit this- I can be a bit slooooooow. I was slow to get Facebook, Twitter and Blogging- and really, really slow to get a Mac. Don't misunderstand that for laziness, I really didn't see the need for any of that until I HAD it and then the lightbulb went off above my head, the "ahhhh, now I get it." moment.  I suppose I can take this as far as conversationally I'm a bit … [Read more...]

shattered teacups & high hedges

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My mom had an amazing collection of antique tea cups that belonged to my great grand-mother. They were beautiful, porcelain and delicate. Various shapes, sizes and colors; the kind of cups that Princesses drank tea out of. The handles were intricate, and each tea cup shone with rainbows and sunshine in my child's mind and my heart would beat in a quickened rhythm when my mother would let me … [Read more...]