7 Quick Takes – A Big Weekend, Advice for Procrastinators, Super Baby, and a Prince Party

-1- Ooof, I feel so behind and then some. This week has flown by! I did finish putting the pictures into last week’s post, but I think there’s still a little more content I want to add.. -2- Oh boy, here we go! This is a busy weekend with Mother’s Day etc, but the biggest [...]

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Pride and Humility – Remembering Chuck Colson

April 24 On Friday Focus on the Family had a special broadcast remembering Chuck Colson. The link can be found here: http://www.focusonthefamily.com/popups/media_player.aspx?MediaId={4DAE1E47-D541-47C5-A2A6-B75C3EA46273}. I’ve been thinking more about pride since my walk in the woods and also how it relates to enaging the culture, but I was just scratching the surface. It was just what I [...]

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7 Quick Takes – Focus on the Family Hits Home, A Community of Photographers and A Pro-Life Conference

So this ‘write a sentence or two on thurs even if you have to go back later’- thing is really working ! Behold, this week’s Quick Takes, on time again! 1. Actually, I’ve decided I prefer the Dance Central 2 game for my morning exercise. I’m not one for popular club music, but the two [...]

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7 Quick Takes – Hope for Marriages with Unequal Yokes, Lenten Mission #2, Exercise, Editing and Kid Milestones

Here are my quick takes, short and quick and up early. They will be expanded upon, hopefully later today. 1- This week I had a bit of routine revival but it’s proving so difficult to stick to it. There are a number of challenges but I think one of the biggest is getting time away [...]

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Life with an Unequal Yoke

When it comes to living in an unequally yoked marriage, I’ve now got a wealth of resources! 2 weeks ago when I sent the email to Focus I had none, and now I have 7 books on my wishlist, several articles, 2 radio broadcasts (and more should I choose to order them), a forum Q [...]

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7 Quick Takes – Back to Life, Pornography and Summer in March

1h and 20 min till the list closes. I’m am GOING to make it! I will still have to add in the photos and some more content, but with the one liner quick takes to be expanded later, I can make the deadline! I think I’ll try to employ this in the future, to write [...]

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Living for the Kingdom

Last week Focus on the family had a program ‘for the men of God and the women who love them.’ Since my husband is basically an atheist, I didn’t think I’d get much out of it, but because I’m trying to tune in to EVERY focus on the family broadcast, I made sure to listen [...]

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7 Quick Takes – Lenten Mission, Love and Discipline, and a Trip to the Dentist

Mar 2 1. This week was the parish mission at my old parish, with our old beloved pastor. It was 3 nights of mass with an extended homily, but unfortunately I only made it to 2 nights because on Tuesday night I had a bad migraine. Some of the best wisdom I’m taking with me: [...]

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7 Quick Takes – Engaging Focus, Vaccine Dilemmas and Miniatures Revisited

Hmm, it’s been a rather busy week, I actually have less to write about than usual so I can finally include a couple links that I’ve been wanting to share 1 This week I finished up an old Focus on the Family broadcast and at the end they stressed the importance of hearing from their [...]

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7 Quick Takes: Forgiveness, Valentine’s week and Photography insights

1. Reflections from the weekly radio broadcasts on marriage and relationships: When it comes to finding a mate in today’s culture, we’re really are consumeristic (sic). It’s all about what you can offer me, whether you can satisfy my needs or not. We really do think that way, I know I have. If the price [...]

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