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A Tribute to Mothers

Happy Mother’s Day!  It has been a rough year for most of the mom’s who are raising a child with Special Needs.  I “tip my hat” to you and hope you feel honored--especially on this day. I’ve spoken with a lot of moms through the years and although they love being a mom, many of them will say they are “exhausted”, feel “overlooked” and struggle with being a “guilt magnet”.  Maybe some of you feel this way on occasion. Do you ever wonder if mothers have always felt that way [...]

By |2021-05-08T09:04:36-05:00May 3rd, 2021|General, motherhood|Comments Off on A Tribute to Mothers
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Spectacular Sunset!

I’ve always been a sucker for a beautiful sunset.  I’ve been known to pull off to the side of the road just to take a picture of one. I think my first purchased piece of art was of a sunset, my phone is filled with sunset pictures and, of course, my favorite color is orange! I find sunsets to be … well, magical. I think the reason I am so taken by sunsets is that it is clear evidence of something only God can do. Man can and has made [...]

By |2020-02-26T11:41:13-05:00February 26th, 2020|faith, General, perspective, thankful, Uncategorized|10 Comments
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Happy Valentine’s Day!

Happy Valentine’s Day! You can’t have a Marriage Blog and not have an entry regarding Valentine’s Day - the day set aside to celebrate romantic love! Advertisers and retailers would like you to believe that Valentine’s Day has to do with gifts of chocolate, jewelry, flowers and lingerie. Networks are busy flooding the airways with saccharine sweet love stories.  And while all of this is a great way to celebrate Valentine’s Day, we all know that it takes more than gifts and romance to make love last. But what does [...]

By |2020-02-14T11:06:35-05:00February 14th, 2020|General, listening, love, relationships, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Happy Valentine’s Day!
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Using Our Story for His Glory

Recently, we were asked to speak at an event for parents raising a child with special needs.  They asked us to follow their theme of “Using Our Story for His Glory”. In several of our past Blogs, we have written about the blessings that have come as a result of Mary, our daughter, being exactly who she is.  While we’ve talked about the difficulties of raising a child with special needs, we have also discussed how God has used Mary and us, not despite our situation, but because of it. [...]

By |2020-01-11T11:48:32-05:00January 11th, 2020|faith, General|Comments Off on Using Our Story for His Glory
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2020 Vision

Happy New Year! Can you believe that it is the year 2020?  With a year named 2020, perhaps our New Year’s resolutions should be something like, “to have a clear vision, improved insight or balance in my life”.  While these are all great goals or resolutions, we encourage you this year to have an additional resolve --- to make your marriage a priority. Making your marriage a priority is one of those ideas that most people agree on, but unfortunately place it on the back burner to concentrate on more [...]

By |2020-01-02T11:09:34-05:00January 2nd, 2020|General, perspective, priorities|2 Comments
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O Holy Night

One of our favorite Christmas traditions is hearing and singing Christmas carols.  There is something comforting about the familiarity of the carols and how we are still singing the same songs that we sang as children. My absolute favorite Christmas carol is “O Holy Night.”  I’m not sure why, but I love to sing it—especially on Christmas Eve.  One line in the song says, “a thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices.” As I listen to the news this evening with its political polarization, mass shootings and unrest in the [...]

By |2019-12-14T09:15:29-05:00December 14th, 2019|General, holidays, perspective, Uncategorized|5 Comments
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Transitions Can be Challenging

We know it has been quite a while since our last blog.  One of the reasons our lives became quite hectic over the last several weeks is that we moved! We moved from our family home of 20+ years where we raised our 3 children (and a dog) into a much smaller (and hopefully easier to take care of) home. So, all the sport’s equipment, children’s artwork, important files/papers, furniture, clothes, even paper clips had to be either, given (or sold) away, thrown away or packed in a box! We [...]

By |2019-10-18T13:39:59-05:00October 18th, 2019|change, family life, General, transitions, Uncategorized|1 Comment
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“I was wrong”

Recently, Brian sent me this cartoon.  We both found it funny --- probably because it hit a little too close to home. Why is it so hard for both of us to say “I was wrong?”  More importantly, why is it so necessary to say it when you have done or said something that is wrong? In a previous blog, we talked about the power of forgiveness.  Forgiveness not only brings healing to the one receiving the forgiveness, but also to the one offering it.  “To forgive is to set [...]

By |2019-08-01T12:14:22-05:00August 1st, 2019|argue, conflict, General, Uncategorized|Comments Off on “I was wrong”
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Collateral Damage

I remember the day my husband and I sat in the doctor’s office in Washington DC’s Children’s Hospital and received the news that the concerns we had over Mary’s lack of development were indeed due to brain damage.  Trying to absorb the full implication of the doctor’s words was overwhelming. So, we took in what we could process and started on a lifelong journey to absorb the rest (Brian and I absorbing things at different rates).  When we heard the news, I thought of the shattered dreams I had for [...]

By |2019-07-10T21:23:42-05:00July 10th, 2019|General, Grief, Grieving, perspective, Uncategorized|2 Comments
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Happy Anniversary!

Earlier this month we celebrated our 34th wedding anniversary!  We have to admit that there were days early in our marriage that neither one of us thought we would make it this far.  But by God’s grace, and hard-work and commitment to make it work on our part, we were able to celebrate this milestone … happily!  Anniversaries often allow you to stop and reflect on where you’ve been and where you are headed. Also, in the month of June, we celebrated another anniversary.  It has been one year since [...]

By |2019-06-20T09:07:08-05:00June 20th, 2019|General, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Happy Anniversary!
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