love thursday

My Husband on Marriage

A while ago Aaron and I were listening to a podcast which was a debate on female roles in the church, and marriage, etc. Totally not interesting to anyone who isn’t trying to fit their lives into the context of the Biblical narrative, I know, but a source of never […]

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Built by Love

Our family has changed a bit in the past month or two. I’ve not written of it before. I wasn’t sure I ever would. It’s not the easiest thing in the world to explain. We have a new daughter. She’s 19 years old. We have adopted her. Not legally of […]

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Moments-4

The Girl is combing her hair, and the Baby is trying to climb over me to reach the pretty candles on the counter behind the couch. I somehow feel like I can’t go on to the next thing until I have seen the completion of the hair combing. Why is […]

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Love is sometimes silly.

I was going through my photos the other day and noticed a few that don’t remember taking. I realized that my kids had been playing with my camera, which would explain why the battery ran out last week. I found these taken of the Girl by her brother. I love […]

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Love Is…

…When your auntie spends her weekend sewing you silly hats and horse shaped pillows, because she knows you like them. She sets up tents in the back yard and sleeps outside with you so you can pretend you are camping, she draws and cuts out dozens of paper fish and […]

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But I got flowers

So my plan to use Valentine’s Day as an excuse/incentive/reminder to be nice to my husband had some interesting moments. Like my 18 year-old brother in law walking into my house while I was in the middle of cleaning and setting a pretty table, wordlessly taking over one of the […]

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I love my kids

Wow it’s late and I should be sleeping. But instead I’m writing because I feel this mad need to capture all of the things about my children that I have enjoyed this week before they slip away and I forget. Like the way the Girl is enthused over her anatomically […]

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Together at last

This was taken just after the Baby was born, and the Boy and Girl met their sister for the very first time. Happy Love Thursday everyone. all content © Carrien Blue

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