Friday’s Fave Five

Welcome to Friday’s Fave Five, hosted by Susanne at Living to Tell the Story, in which we can share our favorite things from the last week. This has been a wonderful exercise in looking for and appreciating the good things God blesses us with. Click on the button to learn more, then go to Susanne’s [...]

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Book Review and Giveaway: I’m Outnumbered!: One Mom’s Lessons in the Lively Art of Raising Boys

(The giveaway and comments are closed: the winner is Ann!) I first “met” Laura Lee Groves at her blog through Susanne‘s Friday’s Fave Five weekly meme (thanks, Susanne!) I identified with her immediately as we’re near the same age and stage of life and she has four boys while I have three. She mentioned in [...]

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Booking Through Thursday: Rewrite

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme centering on the subject of books. The question for this week is: Suggested by Joy: If you could rewrite the ending of any book, which book would it be? And how would you change it? I wouldn’t really rewrite an ending: I respect the author’s decision to end [...]

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Wednesday’s Random Dozen

Linda at 2nd cup of coffee created and hosts the Random Dozen meme every Wednesday. You can answer the questions on your blog and link up to Linda’s plus find more participants there. 1. Is there a word which you initially mispronounced? Were the circumstances in which you made the faux pas embarrassing? As a [...]

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98 books and book series that have enriched my life

Sherry at Semicolon posted a link to one pastor’s list of 99 Books That Made My First 50 Years Worth Living. He was going to make a list of 50 but ended up with 99. That, of course, got me to thinking about what books I would put on such a list. If I keep [...]

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The Week In Words

Welcome to The Week In Words, where we share quotes from the last week’s reading. If something you read this past week  inspired you, caused you to laugh, cry, think, dream, or just resonated with you in some way, please share it with us, attributing it to its source, which can be a book, newspaper, [...]

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My Father’s Love

The world’s wealth and riches can be bought and sold. But I possess a treasure far greater than gold; ‘Twas a gift passed down to me from heaven above, ‘Twas the gift of my Father’s love. And my Father’s love is strong and true, Always believing, always seeing me through. So no matter what happens [...]

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Laudable linkage

My weekly collection of interesting stuff seen around the Web: Chris Anderson’s new hymn is lovely on many levels.. The “prayer fixer.” Funny, but too true. In Bigger than your personality Lisa shares how God can help us with things that don’t come easily or naturally to us. Love this wall display. I would love [...]

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Friday’s Fave Five

Welcome to Friday’s Fave Five, hosted by Susanne at Living to Tell the Story, in which we can share our favorite things from the last week. This has been a wonderful exercise in looking for and appreciating the good things God blesses us with. Click on the button to learn more, then go to Susanne’s [...]

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Flashback Friday: Games and Puzzles

Mocha With Linda hosts a weekly meme called Flashback Friday. She’ll post a question every Thursday, and then Friday we can link our answers up on her site. You can visit her site for more Flashbacks. The prompt for today is: Did you play many games when you were growing up? What were they? (Include [...]

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