Paintball anyone?

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How do you beat the early spring cabin fever, or end of summer “I’m bored out of my mind’s”?? How do you get rid of your husband and a house full of teenagers (some of them yours even!), for the day in the process? Send them to play

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Top 10 Things I’ve Learned From Parenting Teens

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1.  Pick your battles.  When it comes down to it, the most important things involve their safety and their faith.  If your teen doesn’t want to wear a jacket when it’s 30 degrees out, she will either be cold, or it won’t bother her. Don’t let it bother you. She won’t die.

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Truth and Lies Girls Believe: New Series

Disheartened.

After a long talk last night with a girl that I know, I just felt deflated.

Saddened. 

Frustrated! 

This is the second girl I know in as many weeks whom I have found out is pregnant.  I just hit me so hard again. 

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Parenting is Hard

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Tonight, E and I were able to get away on a date.  We don’t go out too often alone, maybe once a month, but tonight we were planning on going to see Thor.  When we arrived to see a line out the door and wrapped around the corner of the mall, we opted for

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All Grown Up

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I am sitting here in the Driver Licensing office, waiting for him to come back from his test and I’m remembering. Now 19, he wasn’t exactly in a hurry to get his license. Now, with a real, adult life looming, it has become a desire and a need. I can hardly believe that he’s grown up, this boy not of my body but my husband’s. This young man who I care about so much.

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