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Checking In With the Sisters – You’re Already Enough
Lolli here… I know I’m guilty of comparing myself to other moms one too many times. Why is it so much easier to overlook another mother’s faults while we examine our own weaknesses with a fine-tooth...
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Checking In With the Sisters – If We Are Just One, We Can Break
Lolli here… I remember the day many years ago when my oldest daughter came home from church and began singing a song I knew I had not taught her. I was struck with the idea that I was no longer my...
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Checking In With the Sisters – Learning to Say “NO”
Lolli here… What is it about so many of us women that makes us think that we can and should say yes to everything that everyone asks of us? I had to laugh out loud when I heard Heather’s name for the...
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Checking In With the Sisters – Worship Through the Eyes of the Child
Lolli here… Every Sunday I play with preschoolers. While their moms and dads go to Sunday School, I build lego towers and pretend to eat wooden watermelon and hot dogs. Since my kids have moved beyond...
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Checking in With the Sisters – Halloween Picture Books
Lolli here… One of my favorite ways to get into the holiday spirit (whichever holiday might be coming up) is to gather as many books as I can that relate to the holiday to read with my kids. Just this...
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Checking In With the Sisters – 5 Ways to Keep the Home Fires Burning
Lolli here… My husband and I have been married for 17 1/2 years, which seems like ages to me. We have a good marriage, but marriage is never easy. And marriage isn’t always….what should I...
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Checking in With the Sister Sites – Every Smile, Every Laugh, Every Tear
Lolli here…. It seems like yesterday that I was a new mother with a toddler and another baby on the way. Now that toddler is a junior in high school, the newest member of the National Honors Society....
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Checking In With the Sister Sites – Unpacking My Bags
Lolli here… As a mother of five kids (I got married and had 5 kids all in an 11 year span), I have felt the need to escape the laundry…the noise…the cooking. Don’t get me wrong. I love being a mom. I...
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Checking In With the Sisters – Power Outage
Lolli here… My 8 day extended family vacation is rolling to an end this morning. As sad as I am for vacation to end, I am eager to get back home–to my own bed, my own kitchen full of the foods that I...
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Checking In With the Sisters – Christmas Traditions from Our Home, to Yours
Lolli here… Today is the first day of December, and I am so excited to pull out all of my Christmas decorations and start playing all of my Christmas music (yes, my husband is a stickler about waiting...
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5 Authors on the Importance of Reading
At 5 Minutes for Books we are fortunate to not only be able to read amazing books, but we are especially thrilled when an author offers to contribute to our site. Here are five posts we’ve published...
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