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I am so predictable when it comes to illness. We are sick so rarely that when we do catch whatever’s going along I accept it easily. It’s our turn after all. Besides, how are our immune systems supposed to get stronger if they aren’t exercised? Like exercise, I may not like it but I know […]
Read More Sick DaysCross-posted from Cherry Blossoms The Blog. On the day of my eldest’s eighth birthday we were having a facetime visit with my mother when I heard what I believed to be a squirrel in our chimney. (I’d heard similar noises once or twice before in the other chimney.) She offered that perhaps the noise […]
Read More The Happy Homeowner: Life With SquirrelsCross-posted from Cherry Blossoms The Blog. I’m pretty sure our sellers high-fived each other when we asked for the fridge. It wasn’t that we had fallen in love with the fridge, we just knew that after buying the house and the laundry appliances we didn’t think anyone would take imaginary money in exchange for […]
Read More The Happy Homeowner: What Is That Smell? (Part One)The sermons describing us as unprofitable servants to Christ are enough to fill an entire book. I won’t rehash that here. We are told these stories to deepen our affection for Christ. We are also told these stories as an example of how we should be. I have several friends who give to me so […]
Read More Eternally IndebtedAnxiety Girl and the Case of the 2010 Taxes Anxiety Girl received a letter claiming her 2010 taxes had never been properly filed. Anxiety Girl was confused. She first discovered this problem a week before buying her first home, a full year and a half after she filed. She remembers making multiple copies of the […]
Read More The Continuing Adventures of Anxiety GirlCross-posted from Cherry Blossoms The Blog. Resolutions? Yep. I’m a goal-making gal. For the most part I’m a goal-keeper, too, although there are always a couple of pesky ones that slip away. Some years they are small and simple (like the year when I was home all day and up all night with baby, […]
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