2 sweet things

Happy Monday!! I decided it was time to finally bite the bullet... after a few months of mulling around the idea, prayerfully considering every angle, I'm blogging from my new home. I hope you'll...

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Joining up again with The Gypsy Mama for 5 minute Friday~ the rules are no editing, no over-thinking, no back tracking. Just writing. Today's word is together... Go. Together. This is so...

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Today I'm linking up with Hearts at Home again! This month's topic is all about balance~ Do you have it? Where do you find it? Are you taking care of you while managing a life? Mary Byers' b...

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Today's writing assignment is to write the post that has been nagging on you... the one that you are hesitant to write because it somehow doesn't fit into your 'niche' or makes you nervous to hi...

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Happy Monday! I hope you had an awesome weekend! Today's writing assignment is to write about our weekend, which is nice because I wanted to share some pics anyway, and then choose one part t...

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Hello, lovelies! I'm a few days behind... I've been reading books to Halle while the cookies bake, crafting paper Holy Week stories while the icing dries, and catching up on laundry while pa...

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Write It, Girl is having a contest and giving away one ticket to the Allume Social Conference. And I'm dying to go... So to enter, they asked 'What does it mean to be a Write It, Girl?'.  ...

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Happy Monday, sweet friends! We had a wonderful, if not crazy weekend. I'm baking cookies like some kind of machine- I've been selling them to raise money for my trip to Africa this summer. So...

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I'm linking up with Lisa-Jo again this week... It's funny because her topic today is 'Gift'. And I had something all in my head that goes with this perfectly. Anyway... the rules are simple~ you...

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Happy Thursday! Today's assignment is to write within the boundaries of a word count, 300 to be exact, about our favorite holiday. I've got to say, that as the consumate rule-follower, I appre...

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Today's Better Writer assignment is to write a 'stream of consciousness' post. To just let the words spew out without a thought as to editing or correcting... And let me just say that this ter...

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Today's Better Writer challenge was to pick two topics and brainstorm about them. Get them out onto paper and just dump all the ideas that come.  I love brainstorming. And I actually hav...

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Happy Monday! We're getting back to (if we can call it that) normal here after spring break. Remy went back to school, somewhat begrudgingly, and I am thankful to get back into a routine. We h...

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Happy Friday! I'm so thankful I've made it this far this week... Spring break has been hard and frankly has me a little fearful of summer. Who knew that once Remy was in school it would be dif...

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Welcome back, sweet things! Thanks for hanging with me as I work through this series! I'm finding the challenges great for this overworked brain!  Today's Challenge is two-fold: First I am su...

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Today's Challenge is an exercise in writing with one's own voice. The action step is to make a list of ten things that you are passionate about (that's the easy part!) and then choose one of t...

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Well, I'm recovering from an amazing weekend at the Hearts at Home National Conference. Can I just say that it does this momma's heart some fantastic good to be in that environment?! Over 6,000 ...

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Happy Friday, sweet things! I wanted to share a new recipe with y'all. We happened to have carrots around, and I absolutely love carrot cake. But not wanting to indulge too much, I wanted to come...

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Happy Third Thursday! The Hearts at Home bloggers are linking up again after a break in February. The Hearts at Home conference is this Friday and Saturday, and I'm so excited to be heading t...

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Well, yesterday was a crazy day, so I missed posting the challenge. But I was thinking about it! The challenge was to write something from your perspective, something from your unique voice. ...

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Do you ever feel like you aren't enough? (I do.) Do you ever feel forgotten? unseen? tired? (I do.) So when I heard about Holley Gerth's new book, 'You're Already Amazing', I jumped at the ch...

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Happy Monday! I'm walking away from a busy weekend into an even busier week, but I'm hoping to keep up with these challenges at least until I leave for a conference on Thursday. Today's chall...

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Today's challenge is to write one piece and change it to become each of the three tenses: past, present, and future. I am really enjoying these exercises, as much because it is getting me int...

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Photo courtesy of Mr. ThinkTank Today's challenge is to write about the picture above. And the point is to focus, to focus on a small part of the bigger picture and draw a story from it...

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Well, today's challenge is simply to write a paragraph or post. The idea is that the first draft isn't something that is supposed to be perfect, or it wouldn't be called a draft. So this para...

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