January 2010
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It's All in the Details...
I recently watched the movie “The Holiday”. The movie itself was pretty good (I liked the Kate Winslet storyline better than the Cameron Diaz one). But the real star, in my books, was the gorgeous set design.
Kate Winslet’s character’s cozy English cottage is perfectly eclectic and charming, with just the right amount of clutter to make it sweet and cottage-y:
Love...
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Blog Negligence...
Sooo, I’ve been away for a bit. And so much has happened in the last little while!
First and foremost, my little boy has made great strides… holding onto things and putting his soother in his mouth, rolling over, falling asleep by himself one night (yeah… only one night. But still!!!), no longer crying in his car seat (taking a more diplomatic approach by “talking it...
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“A monument only says, ‘At least I got this far,’ while a footprint...”
– Eugene Peterson from “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction”
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Resolutions
It was a frozen and frigid afternoon, but the warm sunshine poured through my office window as it always does, blanketing me in its light. I sat there trying to concentrate on the final details for the Christmas Eve service that night. But I couldn’t. My face kept involuntarily breaking into a smile, and my eyes kept welling up with tears. Questions raced so quickly through my head that...
