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Re: Monday #weekinthelife

kproffitt — Tue, 10 May 2016 15:05:59 -0000

Looks like a beautiful day! Gotta love poop adventures! ;) Great photos + stories!!! XO!

Re: Our Essential Oils Journey

Crystal Rowe — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:51:29 -0000

It sure does! It comes with a HUGE support network, a handbook on where to start, and even a 10-day starter kit challenge to help you get started :-)

Re: Our Essential Oils Journey

Danielle Shaub — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 21:29:57 -0000

Ok seriously want to give oils a try but I feel like I would get a starter kit and have no clue where to start lol! Does it come with an owners manual?

Re: Dare …

Crystal Rowe — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 07:35:37 -0000

You make me want to move by the coast!!

Re: Dare …

Roger Beverage — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 21:13:04 -0000

Adjustment will take awhile but it will come. We moved only 35 miles inland from the coast of Maine, where I had spent all of my childhood and most of my adult life. We had been renting a house from friends, who wanted their house back, now that their children had grown and moved away. We found a lovely little house WAY away from the coast. I miss the salt air, the neighborhood osprey and my friends but it is getting easier, one day at a time.

Re: On Theology & Confidence

Sarah Bessey — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 13:41:14 -0000

This is so familiar to me, Crystal! "I will never be a head-theologian, because God created me to be a heart-theologian. " That is it! Love this one.

Re: Finding Jesus

Sarah Bessey — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 13:37:07 -0000

So fascinating - I love how that challenge actually strengthened you in a different way than intended.

Re: 10 Favorite Bedtime Stories

Crystal Rowe — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 08:34:33 -0000

ha - thanks for the heads up .... i'll make sure to "pre-read" it, but we're pretty silly around here!

Re: 10 Favorite Bedtime Stories

elizablair — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 15:39:59 -0000

A word about the Book With No Pictures--I can't remember, but it might refer to butts or something similar. It's pretty silly, which is why they love it so much. Wanted to warn you in case that kind of humor doesn't fly. It didn't for me at certain points in the past, but I'm more relaxed about it now with an older child (N is almost 9 but still enjoys getting in on read-aloud time).

Re: 10 Favorite Bedtime Stories

Crystal Rowe — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 13:03:44 -0000

Such a great list of books I've mostly never heard of! I'm looking them all up!!

Re: 10 Favorite Bedtime Stories

elizablair — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 19:33:51 -0000

We like a lot of the above!

Here are some others we enjoy, in no particular order.

--Kitten's First Full Moon
--Yoko
--First Book of Sushi (I think we lost this at some point, but it was good for the years we had it!)
--Sandra Boynton's Going to Bed Book
--The Great Lollipop Caper
--The Book With No Pictures
--The Little House
--Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site
--Good Night Atlanta

Re: The Clothesline

Evanda — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:47:56 -0000

LOVE this- I felt like I was there with you & now I want a clothes line! I love your & your personality & the home you have made. Miss you & hope you are well.

Re: Giving Up Facebook

Crystal Rowe — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:11:07 -0000

That's it! Relief of not having the burden of knowing all the things ... I couldn't phrase exactly what I felt - but you hit it right on the head. And goodness ... I've even gone back to reading the blogs I love so much - and doing some writing myself. I think the time sucker was even more invasive than I realized...

Re: Giving Up Facebook

ChickP — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 15:49:36 -0000

Me too! It is very strange to not have that outlet. I am blogging some about it. Mostly it just feels like a relief to me to not have the burden of knowing all the things. I can just know them as they're told to me, not just flung out on to the Internet. And I haven't missed anything big in anyone's life who I care about. Interested to see how this turns out for you, and me too.

Re: The Beauty of A Shower

Laura Hamilton — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:37:13 -0000

Since becoming a mother, a hot shower without interruptions is basically equivalent to a spa day - it's a complete luxury experience!

Re: The Need for Jambalaya

Paula DeCarlo — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 20:45:13 -0000

Crystal, a very wise woman once said to me "Don't be so impatient with the world". You cannot force the world to be what you think it should be. You cannot create it. It is what it is, as the obnoxious saying goes. You also cannot force yourself to be something you are not. My eye opening experience? Several years ago, on a whim really, I decided to take a cross country trip. A three week vacation. To me, it was exciting, an opportunity to plan (I love to plan), to see the country, to do things I considered scary (hike down the Grand Canyon, for one thing). I need a new big adventure every few years, and I was kind of bored. The most surprising thing about this trip though, to me, was the reaction I got from other people. Not family (they know I am nuts), but mostly co-workers and friends I had known for decades. People from the same socio-economic status, as you say. Unbelievably, to me, I was cautioned to buy a handgun, a knife, to take self defense courses, because, you know, it was like the wild wild west "out there". I should be scared. Something bad could happen to me. I was cautioned every day until I left on that vacation. We live in kind of a bubble here in Northern Virginia for sure. Bad things are not supposed to happen here. But although I took what I considered to be the right precautions (AAA, automobile maintenance, scheduling all of my hotel reservations, but that's about it, LOL) I wasn't scared. And really, there was nothing to be frightened of once the preparations were done. Okay, it was a little scary in Memphis. Ask me about a close call there someday. But seriously, we are all the same, just people. Some people are good, some people are bad, some are refined, some are not so refined. I have worked with rednecks in Northern Virginia, and known rednecks in Georgia. I know refined people in Georgia just as I do in Northern Virginia. Some people are scary, but most people are just living out their lives, one day at a time, doing what they need to do to get by and raise their families. We are no better than anyone else, and no worse. We are the same. My advice? Don't try so hard. Just let it happen

Re: September Meal Plan – Week 1

Once A Month Meals — Sat, 06 Sep 2014 11:24:47 -0000

Thanks for including our recipes in your weekly plan!

Re: How to Stock your Freezer – Including Recipes!

Crystal Rowe — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:22:57 -0000

Sarah - thanks so much for your meatloaf recipe and the printable. We've already had the meatloaf and you're right - it is THE BEST! And the printable ... well ... it made my organizational heart jump for joy :-)

Re: How to Stock your Freezer – Including Recipes!

Sarah — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 23:03:48 -0000

I'm always looking for freezer meal ideas! Thanks for sharing my meatloaf recipe and freezer inventory printable. It warms my heart to see people using the printables I create.
Thanks for sharing!

Re: The Importance of Family Worship (and why we don’t use the church nursery)

Maria — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:07:36 -0000

Amen!

Re: The Easter Conundrum

Elizabeth — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 20:16:28 -0000

My Dad always said Easter was his favorite church holiday because there were no real expectations of what you were "suppose" to do or how to celebrate it (unlike Christmas). I don't think we ever had a real tradition, except to be together as a family! I loved A's basket yesterday, very sweet.

Re: A Letter from God

Savannah — Thu, 09 May 2013 16:41:46 -0000

This is beautiful!

Re: The One That Will Never Be

Crystal Rowe — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 11:44:07 -0000

All too often we don't talk about the tough stuff. We hide the negative - in fear that people may judge us or feel sorry for us. But sharing the stories is what helps the story release it's power over us ... and it's only in the sharing of stories that we can truly live life together, ya know?

Thanks for your comments along the way. Much love to you!

Re: The One That Will Never Be

Crystal Rowe — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 11:42:33 -0000

To you as well, Andrea. Thanks for stopping by.

Re: The One That Will Never Be

Crystal Rowe — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 11:42:22 -0000

Thanks Kelly!