Julie Lyles Carr

I got ready to head out the door to run a few errands, a rare event that typically takes place in between nursing the twins and bossing around everybody else.  The big sisters were available to babysit and so I was able to get in a little peace and quiet as I ran from store to store. I couldn’t put…
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I got ready to head out the door to run a few errands, a rare event that typically takes place in between nursing the twins and bossing around everybody else.  The big sisters were available to babysit and so I was able to get in a little peace and quiet as I ran from store to store. I couldn’t put…
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I didn’t mean to turn into the Laundry Empress.  I grew up in a home where my experience with the laundry room was that it was a place to dump backpacks, shoes and jackets on my way to the kitchen for an after-school snack.  There were some large square machines in that laundry room and they apparently were part of…
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Remember how 5 of 8 had the tapeworm phobia?  And remember how we cured the phobia with a Google search? And then remember when I had to laugh that tapeworms were coming up as my number one search item that was bringing people to the site? We’ve hit a new high (or low–depending on your perspective). I just saw on…
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But he was pierced for our transgressions,        he was crushed for our iniquities;        the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,        and by his wounds we are healed. Isaiah 53:5 I love Reader’s Digest–always have.  As a kid I would take stacks of copies to read while soaking in the bathtub.  I loved ‘Drama in Real…
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