Tag: family
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Butker’s kick
While telling young women who just graduated with a college degree that they are going to enjoy being a wife and mother more, may be poor timing – I can’t disagree with Harrison Butker. I loved my time at Medtronic, using my undergraduate degree to bring physical healing to many. I would be honored to…
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A Cold and No Internet
Ever since my kids were children it was a dream that they and my husband would worship God together with music. I am not as talented as the three of them, so I planned to be in the audience. Several months ago the little ministry that we volunteer with decided to host a prayer and…
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Delivering more than Chicken Fingers
My first-born is training to be a FedEx driver right now. When I was pregnant with him, my husband and I decided to wait until his birth for the gender reveal. I had been leaning toward being surprised, but it was my sister’s advice that settled it for me. My sister, who had a daughter…
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Work for words
It seems to be working – lately we have been giving our son jobs to do if he can’t control his mouth. Last week there was one evening where that snowballed a bit, and he ended up with quite a few jobs. After getting a few jobs for saying mean things like, “you’re stupid,” when…
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Doing unto others
So, one of the classic signs of autism is the inability to innately understand that others have different opinions on things than they do. Once an autistic person learns of this reality, they still do not think that is ok. They honestly think that the other person is wrong, or is just trying to make their…