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Today I'm beginning the 29 gifts challenge again, along with 29 days of gratitude.  This seems like a perfect season for a focus on thankfulness.  So each day I will write about my gift to give and my gift of thanksgiving.





Day 1:  Today I woke up so thankful for my children, for everything they have taught me and the way they love me no matter what happens in our lives.  I told my childbirth class on Monday evening, "Don't let the stereotype scare you - teenagers are…

Today I am posting from my family vacation in Park City Utah.  We drove down on Sunday from our home in Montana and have been staying with our family.  Today is my daughter's 16th birthday.

I feel so lucky for many reasons today ~ for my sweet daughter, who makes my life so worth living.  Being her mom (and her sis's mom) is truly the very best part of my life.  We brought home flowers this morning, ate yummy french toast, baked her cake to have after Chinese food dinner…

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From artist Lori Portka - you can find this and other beautiful art from Lori on Etsy.

  Isn't this a beautiful image?  I saw it yesterday…

When I make breakfast for my teens before they go to school, they actually sit down, eat and start their day well.  But often I'm very tired in the morning and we all just scrounge the kitchen eating maybe an apple, and unfortunately, sometimes they don't eat at all- throwing me an "I'm not hungry" as they bolt out the door.  Not surprisingly those days are often not good ones for them, or me, as the mom-guilt settles in.

This week I have worked only afternoons so I've been…