Julie Lyles Carr

My in-laws are back. Have I ever mentioned that I’m a little crazy about them…as in a lot crazy about them? Well, I am. They arrived with all their grandparent magic, including a huge stack of games and puzzles with which to entertain the children. You need to know that when these people leave to go back to Oklahoma, I…
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Childhood smells of perfume and brownies. David Leavitt Estee Lauder Youth Dew perfume. The scent of my childhood. Because that’s what my mother always wore. Even now I can conjure the fragrance of it in my memory, the lingering bouquet on my mother’s skin as I would sit next to her during church. She only wore a spritz of it,…
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Then Jesus said to his disciples: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how…
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Excellence Song from Octamom on Vimeo. My inspiring little Word for the Year posting club is ready to post our February celebrations of our guiding words for the year. Someone came up with the idea of putting our word to a song…and so that little diddy you watched was my musical take on Excellence. In case you didn’t catch all…
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We actually do have another set of twins. Canine variety. That picture above is George. He’s one half of the twin dog set we adopted before I realized I was pregnant with twins. Human variety. George is not the alpha dog. And he knows it. This is his twin sister Katie. Katie is the alpha dog. And she definitely knows…
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