Milestones
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Gracie’s First Sleepover!
Before today’s post, I just want to thank you for the incredible outpouring of encouragement and support for the student I wrote about last week. While I appreciate every offer of assistance I…
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Teaching Your Preschooler to Read
A few weeks ago on Instagram, I posted a short video of Gracie reading a book on the day before she started kindergarten. I am super proud of her for being a pretty…
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Friendship Knows No Country
A little over a year ago, Gracie’s bestest little buddy in her daycare class moved back to Italy. Her dad was here working for two years, but when his contract was up, they…
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Another School Year
Oh, friends! So much has happened while I have been away! First of all, THIS happened this morning. (Ignore the years being wrong. I saved the file on my computer last year and…
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The Master’s Plan
I have very few regrets in my life. Very, very few. I believe that mistakes and missed opportunities in our pasts help shape and guide us into our futures. Regrets are just part…
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A Toad Abode
This past weekend, we made a super quick trip to our hometown of Pensacola, Florida, to celebrate the 80th birthday of Chris’s grandmother, Grandma Brown. Grandma Brown has been in my life since…
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Talking to My Kids About Tragedy
As you all know, Orlando has been in shock for the past two weeks as we deal with a horrific tragedy in our community. Chris and I weren’t really sure what to tell…
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Gracie’s New Hardware
It has been a long, emotional 24 hours in my city. As the victim’s names are released, we find connections to them in all different places. Former students of coworkers, friends of friends,…
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I’ll Miss This One Day
This past Saturday afternoon, we were all in the kitchen having lunch. We had a baseball game to get to, and Chris and I were hurrying around trying to get ready to go…
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I’m Becoming My Mother
Growing up, there were things my mom did that I just could not understand in my juvenile, young adult mind. In fact, I didn’t understand them fully until I became a mother myself.…
