Julie Lyles Carr

Here’s the thing. Feeding and housing and clothing and educating this many people, ya gotta have a budget. And a plan. And an understanding that you will spend a lot of time thinking about food and menus and grocery shopping and food storage and freezer bags. That will all work for a while. And then your kids will get taller….
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I’ve got a favor to ask. I need your help. Your input. Your thoughts. Your questions. I have a writing project on the horizon on parenting. And it’s really important to me to address questions and concerns and issues that parents think on most. And I knew right where I could come to find out what is on the hearts…
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I’m two weeks post half-marathon and have been thinking through what really worked in this training season and what I might change. Overall, I’m really tickled with the changes I made to prepare for the race. Considering that just a few years ago I thought I might not be able to run anymore because of my cantankerous knee, it’s been…
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So I was going to post these cute pumpkins pics closer to Pumpkin Carving season. But, uh, I didn’t. I’m doing belated pumpkin pictures. I can’t help myself. They’re just too cute. But like many of the activities that are so fun to photograph, it’s awfully messy… We put out plastic bags and bowls and buckets…but I still seem to…
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My times are in your hands Psalm 31:15 It’s just a sequence of numbers. And yet, it rules our days. The clock. Tick. Tock. We didn’t change our clocks last night in keeping with coming off of Daylight Saving Time, not really for the purpose of conducting any kind of social experiment. And yet. The kids are already up and…
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