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Merry, blessed Christmas

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By now, no doubt, it's looking Christmas-y at your house or in your town. With just a few hours left for last-minute shopping and baking and decorating, if you're not ready now, well, somehow it always seems to work out. And if there are only 11 dozen cookies on the dessert table instead of your usual 15 dozen, nobody will likely complain. :) Our kids don't start arriving until Dec. 27, but … [Read more...]

Our 2nd Annual Thanksmas

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For the second year in a row we’ve celebrated Thanksgiving and Christmas with all our kids (and this year our granddaughter, too!) in a whirlwind 48 hours. It works out best, at least right now, for our boys to go to their in-laws over Christmas, and so we do Thanksgiving and Christmas in one fell swoop in order to get to do it together. The kids starting trickling in on Tuesday. By … [Read more...]

Gratitude and Grace

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Hi friends,  Excited to be sharing a little bit of today with you. I can’t believe it’s Thanksgiving tomorrow. I love that we have a day of thanks set aside to celebrate all God has blessed us with. I think it’s so easy (and I’m speaking from experience, unfortunately) to get wrapped up in preparing for the holiday season and we forget to stop, breath, and let thankfulness and gratitude to … [Read more...]

The Story Behind the Story

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I am so pleased to announce that this week, Tyndale House is offering a special ebook sale of my novel, "Fly Away." The story takes place in 1987—a time period too recent to be a historical novel like my other books, but too far in the past to be a contemporary novel. That’s because "Fly Away" was one of the very first books I wrote—and the year really was 1987. I was just starting to dream of … [Read more...]

Loving Louisville

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Hi friends,  Excited to be back with you all today! Happy Wednesday. I hope your week is going well so far. If you’re waiting for the weekend, you’re halfway there. Yay! Last week my hubby and I traveled to Louisville, Kentucky for his semi-annual work conference. We had been to Louisville once before when our daughter was shooting (archery) in the National Championship, but that was many … [Read more...]

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