The babies all slept all night!! YYAAAYY!! We put them to bed at 8 and didn't hear from them again until 6 am. We're pretty excited and somewhat well rested. I probably shouldn't mention that Justin stayed up til after 11 and I stayed up til 1230. Silly, silly! Anyway - we are praying for this to be the new pattern. The kids sleeping that is, not our late nights!
Stay in your lane. Don't look at other people's papers. Those couple of lines jumped out at me as I read Maria Goff's book " Love Lives Here" It reminded me that we can't all live the same life. Comparisons hold us back and discourage us like nothing else. We have fears of being different when we are SUPPOSED to be different. I grew up trying to fit in and not doing a very good job at it. When I was in my teens I thought I'd try a new approach so I started trying to be the opposite of what I was because I thought that is what everyone else wanted me to be. I am chatty and energetic and I tried to be dainty and quiet. I didn't do a very good job of that either. Yikes. Trying to be someone we're not is exhausting and it doesn't work. We seldom fool anyone or achieve the goal we thought we wanted. What we all really want I think, is to connect with one another and to matter. As an adult I have had goals and held them up against other p...
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