Author: everfaith

I am a homeschooling mom who enjoys reading, writing, gabbing, photography, desktop publishing, and letting someone else do the cooking. I love my Superman husband, precious daughter, 2 dogs, my neighbor (that means you!) and Jesus.
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Another year older…but still not much wiser!

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At least I know enough to know that I don’t know anything, right? I woke up inexplicably at 3:34 a.m. this morning.  My geriatric Dal was up snuffing around.  I could hear him trying to get more comfortable, so I got up and tried to help him as best I could.  This silly dog has loved to be UNDER the covers at bedtime ever since he was a pup.  Of course then I was wide awake and grumpy about having my sleep disrupted.  But then my thoughts turned to my mother…who, thirty seven years ago, underwent a special kind of … Continue reading Another year older…but still not much wiser!

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When Something’s Amiss

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(Warning: Some gross content below.  Not for the squeamish!) There is something motivating about finding blood coming out of places it has no business exiting…like in pee.  Yesterday morning I lay in bed and stretched and prayed and asked the Lord to direct my paths…that I would do his will with my day, not mine.  He answered me in a painful way… Yesterday afternoon I discovered the aformentioned blood and got myself quickly to the doctor.  Understand, I am not someone who loves going to the doctor.  I actually get anxious about all those doctor’s office germs floating around everywhere.  … Continue reading When Something’s Amiss

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Glory to the King

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My daughter is a ham.  She loves performing, especially for God.  We dance and sing at the beginning of each of our homeschool days, and it helps us put our minds in the right place — on the Lord.  (This is especially important before math!  Not for her, but for me!) A couple of weeks ago she went to the first choir rehearsal for a kids performance at church.  During the rehearsal, she asked our worship pastor if she could do a piano solo.  At this point in time, she did not have her Christmas music “nailed” yet.  But she … Continue reading Glory to the King

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A Dog’s Life

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Yesterday morning dawned bright and extremely smelly. I will spare you the disgusting details, but suffice it to say that my old Dal had an accident that transformed my home into what seemed like a cesspool. If the DirtyJobs camera crew from the Discovery Channel had been here, they would have had a field day. I found a two-year-old video of him and sat amazed as I realized just how much he’s aged since we’ve been back in Texas. Quite frankly, the realization broke my heart. In the video, he was spry and alert. I called his name, and his … Continue reading A Dog’s Life

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Merry Winter, Everyone!

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Classrooms in public schools all over the nation are hosting parties today in celebration of Christ’s birth.  Uh, make that in celebration of Winter.  First they changed the name of the parties from “Christmas Party” to “Holiday Party” because the school boards were afraid of getting slapped with lawsuits crying out that the (nonexistent) separation-of-church-and-state clause had been violated.  Now it seems that even the word “Holiday” smacks of too much religion, and schools everywhere have once again capitulated to the lawsuit bringers and are calling it Winter Break. This is one of the main reasons my own child is … Continue reading Merry Winter, Everyone!