Julie Lyles Carr

Spring Cleaning continues this week. Or, more accurately, Spring Pull Every Thing Out of Closets and Drawers and Attics During an Estrogen Haze and Then Get Utterly and Completely Overwhelmed and Make Little Piles and Stacks of Stuff Everywhere While Trying to Gain Enough Motivation to Put It All Back Cleaning. Perhaps you’re familiar with this annual event. Of course,…
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These kids… …are growing up. Before my eyes. It makes me nostalgic for these days….. And then there’s this one… And this one… Sigh. I love seeing kids grow. And it makes me melancholic. And happy. And a little weepy. And thankful. Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:59:00 +0000julielylescarr

So how great is this? We just happen to live on a great street. When I think back to this time four years ago, when I plopped out of the 15 passenger van, seven and half months pregnant with twins and trying to find a new house in 36 hours because we had just learned that we were going to…
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7 of 8 got to have a little spa vacation all her own. She got to go to my mom and dad’s house and stay. All. By. Herself. No siblings fighting for grandparent attention. No twin to have to share with. No parents interfering with the Grandparent Gum Giving Program. Just 7 of 8 and my folks. Snuggled in for…
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For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings. Hosea 6:6 Jesus. I like His style. I really do. I find His interactions with the rigidly religious witty and adroit. Not in a way that reduces His humbleness. But it just tickles me to the see the theology think tank of the day get their…
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