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Date registered: April 15, 2011

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  1. Laughing At Spilled Milk: Picaken – a Test of Womanhood — February 15, 2012
  2. Laughing At Spilled Milk: Romantic Valentine’s Days and other Legends — February 13, 2012
  3. Laughing At Spilled Milk: A Skyping Adventure — February 7, 2012
  4. Dear Me, about Protecting Your Kids… — February 2, 2012
  5. Laughing At Spilled Milk: I Am My Own Grandma — January 7, 2012

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  1. Dear Me, About Your Sense of Style — 9 comments
  2. Laughing At Spilled Milk: Night of IKEA — 7 comments
  3. Dear Me, About Letting Go… — 4 comments
  4. Dear Me, About Graduation Torture — 4 comments
  5. Laughing At Spilled Milk: Romantic Valentine’s Days and other Legends — 4 comments

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Feb
15
2012

Laughing At Spilled Milk: Picaken – a Test of Womanhood

Three step Picaken

Okay, I don’t usually post this frequently but the following must be processed. I’m thinking about making a picaken for Troy’s birthday.  For those of you who may not know, it’s a pie baked into a cake.  This totally cool blogging chick, Jamie the Very Worst Missionary,* made it for her family and it intrigued …

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Feb
13
2012

Laughing At Spilled Milk: Romantic Valentine’s Days and other Legends

“All of my friends put down Valentine’s Day.  They say it’s a made up holiday for greeting card companies to make money and so it’s stupid.  Deep down we all know they are devaluing to avoid disappointment.  But I want a Valentine and I’m not afraid to say it!” – Jenny Girl Ah, Valentine’s Day: …

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Feb
07
2012

Laughing At Spilled Milk: A Skyping Adventure

Troy's pro set up

Oh my good golly, I just did my first ever Skype talk! Yes, a wonderful, beautiful, intelligent woman with fantastic taste found my website and invited me to speak for her MOMSNext group in Michigan. Ah, the wonders of the internet. Honestly, I don’t know who was more excited about this: me, because I was …

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Feb
02
2012

Dear Me, about Protecting Your Kids…

“(Love) always protects.” – 1 Corinthians 13:7 Dear Me, Remember when you held our oldest for the first time. He was so beautiful, flawless, innocent.  There was not a single physical or emotional scar on him and your strongest desire was to keep him that way. In that moment you morphed into a mother. This …

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Jan
07
2012

Laughing At Spilled Milk: I Am My Own Grandma

My dad is married to my mother-in-law. Let that sink in a moment. Picture this: it’s 1989 and I’m seeing a man who can only be described as my dream guy.  Compatible life goals, personality, red hair – the complete package.  I mean, this could be “the one” except… His heart was recently broken and …

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Dec
21
2011

Dear Me: About Kids and Faith

“And that ends round 2 between Jesus of Nazareth and Voldemort of Great Britain!” – Johnathan Durbin Dear Me, OK, let’s take a break from 1Corinthians to talk about the expectations you have about your kids’ faith in the Jesus area – with a Christmas emphasis. You do a pretty good job sharing your faith …

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Dec
09
2011

Dear Me: About Envy

“Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.” Jean Vanier “(Love) does not envy.” 1Corinthians 13:4 Dear Me: About Parental Envy, It’s so easy when you are holding your beautiful newborn in your arms to say that you will accept them just the way they are.  You and Troy …

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Dec
01
2011

Laughing At Spilled Milk: Franken-oven

This past July my most prized culinary possession – the convection oven – was killed by lightening.  Seriously, lightening hit our house and fried our range. It is a miracle that this was all that perished. Now, I would love to blame the fact that we have gone four months without an oven on Troy (especially …

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Oct
26
2011

Dear Me: About Kindness, Part Two

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.” – Evelyn Underhill “Love is Kind.” 1Corinthians 13:4 Dear Me, OK, last time we defined parental kindness by looking at what it is not: envious, boastful, proud, rude, selfish, easily angered and unforgiving. Today I want to talk about what parental kindness is. Just listing the synonyms …

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Oct
21
2011

Laughing At Spilled Milk: Night of IKEA

(OK, yes, this post is pretty long – about double my usual length – but the experience documented below felt much, much longer) I’ve been putting off writing about this because to do so I am forced to relive the experience, but back in early September Troy and I went to IKEA. IKEA: a perfect …

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Oct
07
2011

Dear Me, About Kindness…

“He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.” – Saint Basil “Love is Kind.” 1Corinthians 13:4 Dear Me, About Kindness… We parents don’t talk a lot about kindness because it’s sort of an understood. However, it is so rich, with so many aspects to it, and so very vital to …

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Oct
04
2011

Laughing At Spilled Milk: Scrapbooking

OK, so I don’t scrapbook. Never saw the point.  Not only did I not have the time when the kids were growing up, but there was NO WAY I could have justified it to Troy, my thrifty Scotsman. “Hey baby, I’m going to take this simple $10 slip in the pocket photo album and turn it into …

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Sep
28
2011

Dear Me, About Mom Anger

“Love is not easily angered; does not fly off the handle” – 1 Corinthians 13:5 “Anger is a short madness.” – Horace Dear Me, Mom anger is an uncomfortable but important topic for us to discuss. Statistically, it holds more potential to hurt children than bullies or scary strangers at the playground because of its greater …

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Sep
21
2011

Dear Me, About Patience Part Two

“Love is Patient.” 1Corinthians 13:4 “There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: impatience and laziness.” – Franz Kafka Dear Me, So, its 4pm Christmas Eve 1996 and the entire extended family will be descending upon your home in T-minus 16 hours. In that time you need to finish cleaning the house, prep …

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Sep
14
2011

Dear Me, About Patience…

“Love is Patient.” 1Corinthians 13:4 “You can learn many things from children;  how much patience you have, for instance.” – Franklin P. Jones Dear Me, Everyone knows that parents need patience so I ‘m not writing to you of the importance of this love attribute because you’re oblivious to your need for it.  I am …

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