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Put it in the Pie Hole, Valentine.

I chose to be a hands-off, loosely-nearby supervisor of the Valentines boxes and cards this year. As Jen Hatmaker wrote [...]
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Vacations Should Win.

If you try to work while you’re on vacation, then neither the vacation nor the work gets the attention it [...]
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The Dad He Didn’t Have To Be

When a single mom goes out on a date with somebody new, It always winds up feeling more like a [...]
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Love, Parenting, and Figuring it Out

Peter and I were fighting. Sort of. He says it wasn’t a “fight,” but it’s as much as we fight, [...]
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On the Day that You Were Born

Tyler is Ten. I realized this weekend that every single bit of baby is gone from him, even from his [...]
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Postage Algebra and Flannery O’Connor

So, I had upwards of 75 books to mail to the Launch Team, a group of readers across America – [...]
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Family Devotions: The Recipe for Crazy Making

We gave the boys new Bibles for Easter, because it was time. They needed to graduate to a version that [...]
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Compassion, Discipline, and The Crazy Hard.

Good parenting is crazy difficult. Just really hard. Like, really hard. We’ve been navigating some new waters here, teaching boundaries [...]
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It Is Well.

When peace like a river attendeth my way, When sorrows like sea billows roll, Whatever my lot, Thou has taught [...]
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Sacred Gratitude.

He’s Peter’s closest cousin. They are just a few years apart in a whole collection of people that span across [...]
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I’m in Love with a Train Conductor

Tyler and Peter are acting in the Polar Express at the Colorado Railroad Museum this holiday season.  The show happens [...]
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Sex Talk in the Fourth Grade: Dads Do It Differently

“Mom, what’s porn?” It’s hard not to flinch with your fourth grader comes home with a new word like that [...]
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Pie Dates and Boy Pranks are Not My Gig.

“Hey, Mom? What happens if you accidentally drink vegetable oil?” “Wait. What? How does that happen, accidentally?” Peter and I [...]
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The New Launch: Heyer Expectations

  Let me tell you a little bit of Peter’s story.   He’s actually kind of a big deal, which [...]
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Tackle Football: A Whole New Frontier

Football is in his blood, and I held him off as long as I could. It was only a matter [...]
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Old Dogs, New Tricks, and the Thing About Broken Fences

Peter brought two black Labrador retrievers to our family. He adopted my kids; I adopted his dogs. It’s a big [...]
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Hummingbirds, Pennies, and Verizon Texts

On the day that Robb died, my mom’s phone became Grief’s Grand Central Station. She spent the whole day on [...]
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Drinking Big Gulps of This Life

I have a friend who says her favorite days of life are the days following a headache.  She has chronic [...]
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Someone Else’s Wife

Hi, Robb, I’m a wife.  Again. I’ve written to you lots over the last five-and-a-half years, over our two thousand [...]
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Vows and Promises

I have so many, many things to tell you about the wedding (where the sun shined through an 80% chance [...]
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