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My male readers may want to ignore this post … ** SHAVE THE DAY **
……. (Male blog readers, you may want to skip this post. Total chick post. Well, unless you want to bless your wives with a gift certificate or something.) …….. OK. I hope that you don’t ever feel like I’m trying to sell you anything on this blog. I’m regularly asked to join teams and sell jewelry, makeup, skin care products, storage containers (oooh! that’s a hard one to say no to), etc. etc. And I always say no. And I promise I won’t ever make a DIME off of any sales of this product if you happen to click through and buy it … But oh my STARS! I love…
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Using Hypotheticals with Our Children
My dear friend Lori Johnson has a new blog, Helplessly Hopeful … Meandering in the Shadow of the King, and she asked me to write a little “guest post” on the topic of using hypotheticals with our children. I was happy to do so, of course, because I love Lori! 🙂 And also because hypotheticals have been a great help to us in our parenting of Sophia. So what does Sophie mean when she says, “Hey Mom! Let’s do a hypothetical!” The ten-second-Web-search definitions said that a hypothetical is a possible situation or circumstance that deals with the concept of “what if …” In our family, we make up scenarios…
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If only it were that easy …
I had SUCH a funny dream last night … Fred and I were standing there watching my belly do its amazing gymnastics feats (Eleanor Marie has been extremely active lately, praise God), when suddenly, BLOOP! Out she popped. Happy. Sparkly-clean. Dressed in a super cute newborn onesie. Eyes open. Big smile. All ready to be cuddled and loved. I quickly called my doctor to tell him, “Hey! We can cancel the c-section. She decided to come on her own. We’re all doing great here. Have a nice weekend.” If only … If only … 🙂 !! (21 days until we leave for the hospital …)
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Ann Won the Books!
“Ann” (who posted a comment on June 27) won the free books! Please, Ann, email me your shipping address by July 10. If I don’t hear from you by then, I’ll pick another name. Thanks, all! Yours, Tara B.
