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Becky does Xtreme sports (well, if shopping is a sport)
Earlier today I had a conversation with a friend about extreme couponing. I don’t know what you think of when you hear the term “extreme couponing,” but I kinda imagine a perky snowboarder with a...
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A brave attempt at filmmaking?
TCF, the hubs, and I hit Redbox last week, so we finally got around to watching Courageous. I’m a mother which means that generally it costs me about $200 to go to a movie (including babysitter, and...
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Tools for Jesus
This is probably going to be a bit of a rant, but I’ll try to lighten it as we go along. I’m not quite all together on some of this, so bear with me. A few weeks ago, I went to a seemingly harmless...
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Stuff: Because I’m stumped and y’all have yet to contribute a decent title.
It would be redundant for me to preface this with “we had a crazy week.” But it’s tempting. I’m fighting off the stomach flu (or something equally evil) for the second time this month, thanks to my...
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The Crazy Cycle
A couple weeks ago, I was in a meeting with the leaders of our Sunday school class discussing this semester’s curriculum. It was decided (by people in a previous meeting where I was absent) that we...
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Ungrateful poor people
Sometimes, your whole life as a Christian revolves around one particular discipline or focused area of the Gospel for a while. It’s almost like a halted pillar of cloud that waits to move until you’ve...
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Project Simplify Gone Awry: Week 2, Pantry/Fridge/Kitchen
Continuing in my lackluster attempt at reorganizing in the month of March, here is the latest installment of my participation in the Simple Mom’s Project Simplify! This week Tsh mixed it up by focusing...
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Blue Like Jazz the DVD
Man, I know I promise to write y’all, but this is just embarrassing. I call this “Blue Like Jazz: The DVD” because mamas who love movies have to live at the Redbox. Seriously, I may actually own the...
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Insert pun about being Left out here
A while back, a friend of mine asked me to blog about how American “liberal” politics and “conservative” theology can coexist in my brain and my life. I delayed, and I have since become addicted to a...
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A heart full of sorrows and determination -or- all the things I’m not saying...
Last Friday, my first instinct was to run to this blog like it was the Bat Cave. Surely, something must be done. Something must be said! The noise and violence of the Connecticut shooting had gotten...
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#PTAproblems
I posed a philosophical question on Twitter this week: “Can systems really be changed from within?” A couple of years ago, I got drafted into the PTA at my kids’ school. I say “drafted” because I...
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Making the Invisible Visible
I told you I’d be back for Invisible Illness Awareness Week! Most of my life, I’ve known pain. That’s not a blues line, or a metaphor. I’ve known actual, physical pain. Many people have. I know I’m not...
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Kanye West and the myth of the easy villain
I joke that I’m really on the verge of turning this into a sick-girl blog, but I’m embracing it. Be glad there will be no elaborate discussion of laboratory results today. I know I’m glad! PS: this...
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The evangelical struggle is real not real
This week, I read a new Pew study on religion and politics in America. I’m a wonky nerd, what can I say? There’s a lot of interesting stuff in the breakdown, but what struck me most was this little...
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Let’s Stay Together: Lessons on adoption and foster parenting
A couple of weeks ago, we adopted our foster son: the boy formerly known as Batman. He made his social media debut and we officially became a court-ordained family. We get a lot of questions about...
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I don’t pray for healing
Last week, I asked my Bible study group for prayer in diagnosing some problems I’ve been having with my neck and shoulder. In the last seven days, I’ve seen two orthopedists on the issues. One ordered...
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The most intimidating thing I could do this year
The one word challenge. Choose a word to live by for the year and, well, live by it. Do you have any idea how many words there are in the English language? Me, neither, but I can think of at least...
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Blue Like Jazz the DVD
Man, I know I promise to write y’all, but this is just embarrassing. I call this “Blue Like Jazz: The DVD” because mamas who love movies have to live at the Redbox. Seriously, I may actually own the...
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