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Same ingredients, different results. {be free to be you}

November 27, 2013 by Amelia

[pinit} It started last week over dinner with a group of girlfriends. The topic of Thanksgiving came up, and someone mentioned noodles. The seven of us grew up from coast to coast. Apparently noodles for holidays aren’t universal. Half the group looked at us and said “Noodles? Like spaghetti?” We noodle-lovers gasped in horror that […]

Filed Under: Family Tagged With: encouragement, faith, family, recipe, stories

Young Love Letters – part 1 & 2

June 28, 2013 by Amelia

[pinit] Today, I celebrate 16 years of marriage to this amazing and handsome man. Oh the adventures we’ve had. From Michigan to Florida and back. Two fun kiddos, one scary birth. Health scares. Depression. Anxiety. This writing life. We were so young when we said “I do.” We had no idea that what we were […]

Filed Under: Family, The Narrator, young love letters Tagged With: kissing, letters, love, love letters, love story, marriage, stories, teen dating, teen romance

A fun summer activity for family bonding (and learning!)

June 14, 2013 by Amelia

This is year two for our summer journals. I kept the journals that they made below from last year and we will keep writing in them this summer. How fun to keep a running summer journal and see the progress of each child over the years in their handwriting, storytelling and artwork? Not to mention […]

Filed Under: cheap & fun, craftiness, Family, Little Miss Sunshine, motherhood, summer, T-Rex Tagged With: family, funny, kids, motherhood, parenting, school, stories, summer

Memorial Day – A family story from World War 2

May 23, 2013 by Amelia

Every family has its stories. Heroes. Losses. Forgiveness. Grief. It’s how we remember. How we honor and treasure those we lost too soon. I grew up hearing this story, and in college I asked my Grandma to write it down. This Memorial Day weekend, may we remember those who have sacrificed so much that we […]

Filed Under: Family Tagged With: family, heroes, memorial day, stories, war, world war 2

We Remember

May 23, 2012 by Amelia

Every Memorial Day weekend, I pull out this story that my Grandma wrote in a letter to me while I was in college. I was taking a story telling class at the time and had written my grandparents asking them to send me family stories. This one is a gem, and serves as a reminder […]

Filed Under: Family Tagged With: family, letters, stories

It's always a matter of life and death

May 16, 2011 by Amelia

Three years ago if you had told me that running 15.6 miles would change my life, I would have replied, “You mean end my life?” I couldn’t run 2 miles nor did I want to. But this past Saturday, I’m glad I ran those 15.6 miles, even though I was sick. I fought a terrible […]

Filed Under: faith in action, running Tagged With: death, faith, life, running, sacrifice, stories

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