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How I’m Making This Year Less About Doing and More About Being

January 1, 2017 by Mama Jo

How I’m Making This Year Less About Doing and More About Being

It seems everywhere you turn this month people are talking about setting goals. And with the start of a new year it’s fitting really; parenting goals, exercise goals, dieting goals, financial goals – goals, goals, goals. Some people it seem really thrive from setting goals, while others become overwhelmed by the list they lay before […]

Filed Under: Grace, Growth

Opening Day

April 11, 2015 by Mama Jo

Opening Day

I’m not a baseball fan…yet. I say yet because my son was hitting baseballs even before he was potty trained (Video: https://youtu.be/AZb1F4GZHrE). By the age of 3 he was hitting them over the fence that marked our city plot. And now, at 5, he is playing on his first team. Something he has been waiting […]

Filed Under: Grace

Misplaced murals

March 19, 2015 by Mama Jo

Misplaced murals

Red is one of my favorite colors. It’s bright, expressive, full of energy, looks good on me and generally makes me feel happy. I even wore red shoes with my wedding dress! But there have been two occasions in my life when red hasn’t made me so happy. Once “it” happened when I was 5 […]

Filed Under: Grace

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