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Life

Today was a full day of sports with Merritt and Caleb. It is so fun watching them grow and develop and improve!! But somebody should have told me how much my heart would race when my kids are in nail-biter games. I’m not sure my heart pounded that much even back when I was the one playing!

ENCOURAGE = GIVE COURAGE If you ever feel a prompting to write an encouraging note to someone, do it! Follow through, write it and send it in the actual mail. Life is filled with criticizers and nay-sayers and skeptics and challengers and question-askers. Often…not always…but often, they are even helpful with their questions and we would do well to pay attention. But, gracious, it can get exhausting. God has blessed me with friends who lift me up and who send random notes of blessing. Words of life that remind me of my “why” and give me a little boost when I need it. I pray I am quick to give an encouraging word to others – to be one whose words actually GIVE COURAGE to others! I hope you’ll join me this week in looking for people to whom we can GIVE COURAGE!

Me: “Guys, if I had one dollar for every time I’ve told you not to touch each other, how much money do you think I would have?” Jess: “Hmm...at least infinity one hundred dollars. For sure.” #goodthingtheyarecute #raisinggentlemenifitkillsme #calebtateyboy #jessnateyboy

Christmas 2019 has been the cherry on top of this decade. Merry Christmas from all of us!

Christmas Eve Service at FBC, Electra

As we were cleaning the kitchen tonight after dinner, I found this in a combined stack of all my kids’ school papers. I asked my children whose Dewey Decimal card this is and, bewildered, Merritt said, “what in the world is a Dewey Decimal Card? Is that kinda like a floppy disk? I feel like Floppy and Dewey are related.” #poorlittledigitalchildren #deweydecimalsystem #howwilltheyorganize #washingdisheslikeaboss

Family togetherness on the 30 minute drive to church in Tarzan today: Jess - “How do tornadoes start?” Caleb - “Butterflies, of course.”

Last week, we had a Blong family shopping day in San Marcos and I just came across some of the pics on my phone. What a blessing we must be, in public places! 🤦🏽‍♀️ #sorryneimans #canttakethesepeopleanywhere #ilikethemthough

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Under the carport. Because it’s raining and Jack Frost is nipping at our noses. They may be gross or they may be awesome. We don’t know. We’ll have to report back. But never let it be said we didn’t provide life experiences for these kids!! #whatevenisachestnut #whatisitsupposedtotastelike #pretendcalebhasshoeson

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