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Well, we just welcomed our sixth little one this past week! He is a beautiful little red head, and we are both recovering, and doing very well. He has been a dream baby and eats, and sleeps, and snuggles so perfectly. I told my husband that six seems to be so much easier to me than one, and we chuckled. Six is not easy! Don't misunderstand that. But, what I mean in that is that I am not suprised by things in the same way as when I had one kiddo. That first kiddo was so incredibly hard!! Although, I was a avid babysitter, nursery worker, school teacher, and Sunday school teacher I had no idea what it was like to have a child be in my complete care 24 hours a day. I even got a little break, and that first little one spent 12 days in the NICU where I was able to have "help" figuring things out. Everywhere I went required 2 hours of meticulous planning, and packing. I would honestly google route times between destinations because I had (x) amount of window before I needed t...
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Children are such great examples.... I am so glad I am surrounded by them. There is a beautiful innocence in my children that I can learn so incredibly much from. They teach me- if I let them. You see, they don't have the complicated and complex hurts, experiences, or prejudices that we have developed through a life of living. They bring to the table a completely different and unaltered view. I have a child with a disability... An obvious one. He is in a wheelchair. And what I have seen in my children has brought me to tears dozens and dozens of times. He is my oldest, and so my younger children have known nothing other than him as being in a wheelchair. It is not odd, or different, or strange to them. It is entirely their normal, and I don't honestly think it gets any thought on their behalf. My daughter loves handicap parking. Its the funniest thing how excited she gets seeing that blue sign in front of our car. "Its a handy man!" she will excitedly yell. Some...
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     Back when I was in Bible college, one of my favorite weekly events was Popcorn preaching night. It was a humble get together of college students in an empty classroom, and every now and then someone would bring popcorn to share! What was so fun about it was its purpose. Its purpose was to light each other's fire for the Lord with just bursts of God's Word.  It was active, and vibrant, and there was excitement there you couldn't help but shout "amen" over. The preacher boys would take turns giving a quick, and simple message that the Lord had laid on their hearts. One would pop up, and then another, and then another. It really was fun, and exciting, and I craved that popcorn preaching as it so encouraged my heart each week.    I wasn't a preacher boy, so I never had my turn popping up to preach, but you know I've got that pop up thought still swirling in my head. So here I am... Unpopular Popcorn... I intend to pop in every now and then with a though...
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