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Cast Fear Out

This is a true story about putting fear in its place by Heather McMillan. I met Heather at the 2:1 Conference last weekend. In between two sessions, I felt restless. I got up and scanned the room, searching for someone to talk to. I found Heather. In the span of a few minutes, I learned [...]

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10 Life Lessons I Learned at the Titus 2:1 Conference

I attend 3-4 blog conferences a year. Usually I lead a session, helping other bloggers to improve their SEO and make more money from their sites. Except, sometimes I forget to submit a speaker proposal, and then I just attend as a participant. It happens more often than I’d like to admit. A couple of [...]

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Safeskin Kids Sports Wrap Wrap-Up

We’ve been playing doctor for a couple of weeks now. Grace wraps me up, and I wrap her up. Well, we were doing that, but then she skinned her knee (for the third time so far this year), and she needed it wrapped up for real. We used a Safeskin® Kids Sport Wrap. It’s a [...]

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Grace Has Written Her First Book

I love what I do. I love blogging. I love coaching bloggers. I love social media and connecting with people on a meaningful level. I know I am doing the work that God created me to do. However. When the work that I love takes my focus, attention, and energy away from my kids, I [...]

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Parmesan Crusted Chicken Breasts with Fresh Asparagus

There is no food on earth that tastes as good as the food you pick from your own garden (or your dad’s garden, as the case was for us today). This afternoon, we walked to my parents’ house and cut the first asparagus of the season. Less than two hours later, we were eating the [...]

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Siri Hates Me (and the Feeling is Mutual)

I am a geek. I’ve been using a computer since I was 3, and I have always had a strong zeal for all things related. I was (almost) delighted to have lost my ancient iPhone 3 last fall. I looked for it diligently for three days, and then I bought a new phone, an iPhone [...]

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Momma Means Business

I enjoyed my Simplify Family Life series so much, I’m going to keep adding to it. I hope you don’t mind. This post is about how following through with natural consequences makes parenting simpler. When my kids believe that I’m going to do what I say I’m going to do, parenting is so much easier. [...]

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Pineapple Upside Down Cake

I swear I’ve posted this on my blog before. I’m sure of it. Where it has gone and why I cannot find it are beyond my comprehension. I just don’t understand. Maybe it’s lost in my unpublished drafts somewhere. Who knows. I’ve been making this pineapple upside down recipe for at least ten years. It [...]

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Simplify Your Life by Covering Up Your Band-aids (featuring Safeskin Kid Sports Wrap & a $100 giveaway)

Is there a child in the world who doesn’t delight in her scrapes and bumps in a strange way? Who doesn’t celebrate her booboos in a thinly veiled plea for pity and bandages? Please tell me that your kids do this. If they don’t, mine must be weird, and that cannot possibly be the case. [...]

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Simplify Your Life – Stop Worrying

In celebration of the awesome Simplify Family Life sale, all of this week’s posts will focus on simplifying family life. For three and a half months, I have been worrying about our taxes. I made four times more money last year than ever before in my business, and I was sure I’d owe a pile [...]