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Holiday Clothing Drive 2016

By Jessica

This will be the fourth year I’ve hosted the Holiday Clothing Drive. I had to skip 2015 because life and sanity, but missing a year seemed to make our whole family even more anxious to get back to it for 2016. Plus the kids are two years older so I have more people to help me not […]

Building towers

By Jessica

I didn’t realize why Sawyer volunteered to go to the grocery store with me until we got to the check out. I was speed-unloading the cart when I looked up to see him building a tower of produce, soup cans and ice cream (in that order because tomatoes make the sturdiest tower base, I’ve heard). […]

And you get a crib!

By Jessica

Last week I wrote an article for Huffington Post Women about Blog U (which you should really attend if you aren’t already because it’s going to be an epic conference and I never use the word epic for much of anything other than LTYM which I will write about as soon as I can wrap […]

Light the Night

By Jessica

My friend’s husband has cancer. She has two young children and lives hundreds of miles away and things are not looking good. When I found out over the weekend that his condition worsened I was furious. How could cancer continue to take such a toll on another family? In all honesty, I would like to […]

Christmas clothes for those in need

By Jessica

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Something about little girl dresses leaves me starry-eyed and tilting my head and missing my girls who were little just a few days ago and missing my girl who will never be big at all. Even if I hadn’t lost a daughter I think it would still be hard for me to part with the […]

I’ll Pay For Your Coffee

By Jessica

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  Have you ever been out for a meal or in a drive thru line and when you attempt to pay for your order you find out that someone else has done it for you? Not in a can I buy you a drink? sort of way but in a, it feels really good to […]

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