Musings

One thousand pictures of your sister.

Julie / September 20, 2010

Dear R, and I’m sure L, and any other little siblings you might have one day: I hope that you don’t see the massive photography collection we have of your older sister and feel left out.  We have pictures of her from practically every hour of those first days, practically every day of those first weeks, and practically every week…

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Musings, Toddlers

He who answers.

Julie / September 20, 2010

I stumbled onto a post on Reddit last week where a dad was really struggling with how to teach his four-year-old about death.  She had just really begun to understand the concept, and now was understandably worried that she was going to die, that her parents were going to die, and so on.  Lots of other Redditors chimed in sharing…

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Home-Centered

Weighing outside activities.

Julie / September 17, 2010

I really like this blog post: When It’s Time to Just Say No.  I recently joined a morning Bible study–biweekly–and it was a really big decision for me, one I’d never had to make before because we didn’t have a car and so I was “stuck” at home.  And I struggled pretty deeply over what this two-hours-every-other-week would mean for…

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