Category: Family
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Look At The Birds Of The Air
This spring a mama bird made her nest under the roof of our porch, where my husband and I often like to sit and chat. Each time we’ve sat out there during the last couple of weeks, we’ve seen the poor mama dart toward the nest and then retreat to a perch in the distance…
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A Sanctuary Home
When I think back on my kids’ younger days, when I was bleary-eyed from sleep deprivation and overwhelmed by all the challenges of babies and toddlers, I remember wondering if I would survive. Now that those days are over and we’re facing completely different challenges in the adolescent and teen phases, I’m grateful to have…
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The Last Time
They say that when it comes to our kids, we never know when the ‘lasts’ will be. One day we will do something with our child, completely unaware that it will be the last time we ever do it. The last time I give him a bath. The last time I tuck him in. The…
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Teaching My Kids To Love Hiking: Just Kidding; They Don’t
I keep saying to myself that I wish I’d discovered my enjoyment of hiking and backpacking earlier in life. It has really only been in the last several years that my husband and I have pursued those activities more diligently, and now that we’re in our forties, we certainly have a few more aches and…
The Wildernest Family 