LOVE Looks Like - MIA

LOVE is not Missing in Action! I promise.

Technically it's still Wednesday, right?

I would LOVE to share what LOVE looks like in our home this week. But, these past seven days have been a frazzled mess of jumbled seconds and hours.

My manuscript is so so so close to being finished. It is monopolizing my every thought. I have one more chapter to write and another to tweak a bit. And, lets not forget the bibliography.

Why didn't I work on it while I was writing? HUGE MISTAKE.

So, this week, how about you lending me a hand and showing me lots of LOVE?

Anyone still out there? I'm not missing in action, really I'm not.


Bueller?



Bueller?












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LOVE Looks Like Baked Goods

I LOVE sugary baked goods. Just ask my blue jeans. This means I LOVE on people with sugary baked goods. Just ask my husband.
 I put fifty pounds on my hunka burnin' love when were married.
I'm not stupid...I mark my territory.

Friends coming over for a visit = ice cream pie.

Kids in bed, finally a few minutes alone with Paul = chocolate cake and a cold glass of milk.

Marriage study in our home this week = warm apple cobbler.

Grace and Samuel walk in after school = chocolate chip cookies without walnuts.

LOVE was sent in the form of a care package to my baby girl's college dorm today. A box wrapped in brown paper is travelling five hundred miles. Pumpkin bread with
chocolate chips and fudgy brownies are its precious cargo.

I think Meghan will get the message.

How about you?
What does LOVE look like in your home this week?

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LOVE is a Phone Call to a Girlfriend

There's been LOTS going on in our neck of the woods. I haven't had a chance to do much of anything, including visiting all of you!

I hope to run around and catch up with everyone VERY soon.

My manuscript is getting polished and with only about eight weeks left until it's due in the publisher's hands...I'm overwhelmed. Each time I read through a chapter you'd think I had a split personality.

WOW. Did this really come from me? Thank you Lord. This is some AWESOME writing. AWESOME! So many moms will be touched by these words God. Thank you for allowing me to author this book.

Twenty minutes later...

This is HORRIBLE! It stinks worse than our family car on a summer day. Lord, why would you ever ask me to do this? What were you thinking!?

After a few phone calls to a precious girlfriend (Thanks Beth!), she talked me down from the ledge and reminded me that a diet of raspberry Zingers and Dreyer's ice cream wasn't helping things.

LOVE in our home this week is a phone call with a girlfriend.

How about you?
What does LOVE look like in your home this week?

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LOVE Learns to Let Go

It's been a monumental week over at our house.

Yours truly has passed the milemarkers of

 a few parenting rites of passage.

Our oldest daughter, Meghan, packed her bags,
jumped in our car and headed off to follow her dreams.
 College-bound since she cut her first tooth,

she has been waiting for this moment for a long, long time.

We underestimated how hard it would be on our little ones.
Thank you for the Rice Krispy treats Nana!

She's been out on her own since last fall,
so I was surprised how emotionally taxing it was
on my mom- heart to take my child to college.

 Her brothers and sister took it pretty hard too.
There were lots of tears.

She seems to be doing much better now.

Amazing what a couple of days and a Skype account can do.

Her teddy bear peeking out through a cardboard box of her things.

We had her dorm room decorated and organized lickety-split!

Less than twenty four hours later, we were at our local DMV,

while our son David took and passed his driver's test.

Introducing the State of California's newest driver.

Another area of letting go for me.

This week, over at our house, LOVE is learning to let go.

What does LOVE look like in your home this week?

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