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Making Your Home a Haven: Inviting and Giving

I’ve made it to the end of the challenge! I feel really good about what I was able to accomplish with God’s help in my home this week. Today’s tasks are as follows: Get Christian off to school Meet friend for coffee Go through coupons and go bargain shopping at Walgreen’s fold and put away [...]

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Fri, November 14 2008 » Homemaking, Spirituality » No Comments

Making Your Home a Haven: Fun

Wow! This week has flown by! I think it is because I haven’t had much time to sit, thanks to Monica and that is a really good thing! Today’s focus is all about fun. So I am planning to focus my planning in that area on my son. He is nearly 8 and very creative, [...]

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Thu, November 13 2008 » Homemaking, Spirituality » No Comments

Making your Home a Haven: Cared For

We are on day three of our series with Monica. Today’s task was to make our homes more cared for by tackling some of those things that have been needing to be addressed for awhile. I awoke at 4:30 but just didn’t have it in me to get out of bed. This is an area [...]

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Wed, November 12 2008 » Homemaking, Spirituality » 1 Comment

I did it!

I actually went to work out last night! Barb, (my triathlon partner and AWESOME friend) and I, went to deep water aerobics. Deep water aerobics is like regular water aerobics except you are in deep water so you must tread water the entire time. Class lasts an hour, so I feel like I got a [...]

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Tue, November 11 2008 » Health and Fitness » 1 Comment

Making your Home a Haven: Clean

Today is day two in my quest to Make my Home a Haven! I have already been so blessed by this and am excited to see what blessings there are in continuing on. I awoke at 4:30 again this morning and struggled to get out of bed, but am happy to report that I made it [...]

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Tue, November 11 2008 » Homemaking, Spirituality » 6 Comments

Making your Home a Haven: Tidy

As promised, today is day one of a week long adventure to make your home more like a haven. Today’s focus is to tidy up! So, here is my plan for the day. Prayer and devotion: I awoke around 4:30 today and spent a little time in prayer, but because I know that I wake [...]

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Mon, November 10 2008 » Homemaking, Spirituality » 7 Comments

I’m soooo going to do this.

One of my favorite blogs, The Homespun Heart is doing a series on “Making your Home a Haven”. It starts tomorrow, and so shall I. I’ll be posting my results and insights. I think it will be such a great thing to get me in the groove not only with housekeeping, but also with my [...]

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Sun, November 9 2008 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Former Glory

I once experienced some glory. I, fat girl, completed a triathlon. It was a sprint triathlon, which is sort of a nothing race when you think of the IRON MAN or something, but it was a triathlon nonetheless. (That’s me on the left, in the horrid unitard with the pink zipper, and my training partner.) [...]

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Sat, November 8 2008 » Health and Fitness » 1 Comment

Allow me to introduce myself…

The last time I wrote in a blog was 2006, and I figured that it was time for a fresh start.  I’m Beth. I’m a thirty something, (alright a couple weeks shy of 36 if you must know) stay at home mom to two wonderful children and wife to a pretty spectacular husband. Here’s a [...]

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Sat, November 8 2008 » Uncategorized » No Comments