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Well, Illinois starts “shelter in place” at 5pm today. I wanted my parents to cancel their plans to have people over for St. Patrick’s Day corned beef & cabbage, but they will not. I tried to get them to pack up and head to their lake house, but they argued with me, saying “All the…
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Nah…it’s not. But I’m telling you, that’s what it feels like on social media and the news. I am so sick and tired of everyone freaking out and major panicking. I’ve started on MeWe to use the hashtag #AntiVirus on my daily updates. These bring some levity to the entire situation, and just give a…
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First, thanks to The Well Armed Woman for the main image on this post! As I type this, we are in the midst of panic. The stores are all out of toilet paper (come on people, leave some for the rest of us, or just use a bidet or squirt/peri bottle and some family cloth),…
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“If calamity comes…[we] will cry out to you in our distress, and you will hear us.” 2 Chronicles 20:9 I’ve been reading “God Hears Her: 365 Devotions for Women by Women” this year. Today’s devotion was on valleys, the various valleys we walk through on our journeys through life, and how God walks with us,…
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I’m always amazed at my ability to stay cool, calm, and collected in almost every situation. Back when I worked apprehending shoplifters, I would feel my adrenaline start to rise as I would prepare to stop the individual who was stealing from my store. My pulse would race, hands get clammy, I could feel and…
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Still working on Social Awareness over here on my EQ journey! February was fun as I came up with a list of back pocket questions. I have a handful, which will work based on the situation and group of people I am in. This month, I am focusing on greeting people by name. I am…
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…And to dust you shall return. So we are told as we receive our ashes each Ash Wednesday. We start the season of Lent with a visible sign of our sins and our sacrifice on our foreheads; ashes from the previous years’ palms in the sign of a cross. Now, we Catholics do have some…
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Well, it has been a busy few days. I did finish that blanket Thursday night. I cracked down and muscled out the last few rows and the border to get it done. It was mailed out to my cousin Friday morning; Little Man and I stopped by the post office before storytime at the library.…
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I know. I said I would have that baby blanket finished and mailed out by Christmas. I did not get it done. And let me tell you, it ate away at me. I felt terrible, an utter and complete failure. Well, last week I said on MeWe that I was going to finish it so…
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Stuff. It is everywhere. We’ve all got at least one “junk drawer.” Can’t find batteries? Check the junk drawer. Rubber band? Junk drawer. Paper clip? You guessed it, junk drawer. I am a person who finds stuff to be overwhelming. When things are piled up, disorganized, just STUFF everywhere, I get anxious, frustrated, short with…
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