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My Sunday Sanctuary: Birthdays

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Today is my sweet husband Donnie’s 44th birthday. Forty-four. Wow. That sounds like such a big number. Even ten years ago, anything beyond 40 just sounded…old. It’s funny how, now that he and I are both approaching our mid-forties, it doesn’t seem old at all. Because we were talking, and had to agree: we still [...]

Friday Fill-ins

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If you sense a theme in my answers this week, you’re right. Baby-induced sleep deprivation is warping my mind! LOL 1. I feel like I might never know what it’s like to be well-rested again. 2. I would need to sleep for a month to catch up. 3. Do the right thing. Especially when you [...]

My Sunday Sanctuary: Heaven

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If you’ve ever seen the 1990′s TV show, Touched by an Angel, you have a visual reference for what life has felt like the past few days. It’s been a while since I saw that show, but it seems like there was usually one angel assigned to a case. Then as the story developed, sometimes [...]

SOOC Saturday: Jonah and the Whale

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Jonah was wearing my favorite cloth diaper cover yesterday, so I tried to snap some pics of him wearing it. It’s a WiggleWormBottoms diaper cover, and the name sure suits my wiggle worm, as you can see in these pics. I thought it would be cute to try to capture him sitting next to the [...]

Friday Fill-Ins

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1. This is what life does. It lets you start over again tomorrow, fresh, with no mistakes in it–yet. 2. Why can’t some people just relax and appreciate the moment? 3. Upon reflection, my reflection in the mirror is sporting a few new wrinkles. And let’s not talk about those gray roots. 4. I’ve been [...]

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Kari Apted is a writer and speaker residing in Georgia with her husband, three sons, two cats, two fish and one dog. She writes a humorous weekly parenting column for The Covington News and freelances for various publications.more»