Category: family
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Authentic Mothering with Brooke-Sidney Jackson
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Brooke-Sidney Jackson is the founder and CEO of “Bella and The Babe,” a website that has resources and support for authentic mothering. She is the author of the brand new “Mama Love Planner” and offers Joy and Empowerment sessions for mothers, and women hoping to become mothers. In the past, Brooke-Sidney has…
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A Wedding Prayer
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My cousin was married in 2011 and he and his wife to be asked me to say a wedding prayer at their rehearsal dinner. It was one of the greatest things that I had ever been asked. It’s hard to put into words just how blessed I was to play…
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Make Sure You Are Running Towards Something
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Welcoming patienceI’m often so anxious for the things I long forto be here, now For the un-straightened feelings of the past to be doneand overand wrapped up neatly My desire to dash ahead,into the newness,to devour whatever awaitshurry outweighs steeping in the wisdom nourishing my soul from yesterday,last year,four years…
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A Twenty Year Reunion at UC Santa Barbara
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A couple of weeks ago we packed up the car and headed south to Santa Barbara for a twenty year reunion of myself and five of my closest buddies. Here’s part of the road near Cachuma Lake. I love those California Live Oaks. The planning for the trip had started…
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Memorial Day Weekend Recap: Happy Hollow and Ardenwood Historic Farm
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It was a great three day weekend! I hope you all enjoyed your extra day off. We spent a lot of time with family, and Zoom adored seeing his twin cousins twice over the weekend. Here they are at Happy Hollow in San Jose on Saturday … now that they…
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A New Family Hobby – Geo-Caching!
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We went out of town a couple of weekends ago. I had a dream about geocaching one night and woke up and announced to Sean that we needed to try it the next morning. And so we did! If you aren’t familiar with geo-caching, it’s basically a treasure hunt, where…
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Compassion International: Sponsoring Nootcharadee
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Over the last few years, probably since I’ve had a child of my own, I felt drawn to help support another child, somewhere in the world. When I think of mothers and fathers in poor countries, struggling to feed, clothe, and school their own little boy or girl, it breaks…
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Birthday Weekend Recap
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My birthday was on Thursday and we had a fun-filled four days to celebrate! On Thursday, my parents, and sister and her family all came over for dinner. They brought delicious gluten free cupcakes from Sibby’s Cupcakery. We opened gifts and I got this adorable rooster painting from my Aunt.…
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Zoom Friday: Burning Love, an Elvis (and Elmo) Fan
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Last night during dinner we started talking about Elvis. Zoom (now 2) has been a fan for a “long time,” and tonight as he had peanut butter and bananas (The King’s favorite sandwich), Zoom chatted along with us, saying both Elvis and Elmo. Then he jumped down from his chair…