The Friendship Recipe

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The Friendship Recipe

Recipes are not my thing. They are too bossy, and I’m allergic to measuring. I’m more of a “throw the essential ingredients together and see how it goes” kind of girl, and it often bombs (please ask my husband about the “Chicken Cheese Biscuit Casserole” that I invented as a newlywed that he did not even pretend to like). However, unfortunately for Husband and all who enter my kitchen, my attempts work out just often enough for me to probably never change my ways.

And though I don’t pay close attention to food, I have always paid close attention to relationships, and fortunately, friendships are a lot like my brand of cooking. There’s no guaranteed way to ensure a successful friendship, but if you throw the essential ingredients in, you’ve got a pretty good shot.

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Nonsensical Thoughts on Parenting and Mirrors

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Nonsensical Thoughts on Parenting and Mirrors

My daughter snagged herself some twin husbands that are twice her age. I mean, she’s three and the boys are six and they were really just playing house at the playground, but the point was that she would tell them “come wif me,” and they would, following her around and completing her demanding “honey do” lists for a solid thirty minutes until their mom dragged them home. Upon reflection, I realized that 1) I could learn a lot from her, and 2) I need to pray more specifically for her future husband. My daughter is her daddy made over, and that means we’re navigating through some tricky waters we call “bossiness” or when we’re in a better mood, “leadership skills.” I love her for all the reasons I love her daddy: she’s decisive, she speaks her mind, and she doesn’t get swept away in the opinions of others, three things I happen to be terrible at. So yeah, we marry our opposites and then give birth to our opposites and it’s all a little confusing to navigate. 

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6 Podcasts for the Hungry Soul

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6 Podcasts for the Hungry Soul

Podcasts are my best friend (ACTUALLY, I AM CONVINCED THE PEOPLE ON THESE PODCASTS ARE MY ACTUAL BEST FRIENDS, RIGHT GUYS? LET'S HANG OUT SOON!). It's because my work as a stay-at-home mom demands a lot of my body but often not a lot of my mind. While I'm folding laundry or cooking dinner or burning dinner, it's so fun to be able to listen to edifying content that's less commitment than an audiobook (although I love a good audiobook and for the record, I also love commitment. HI LUKE! YOU'RE MY BOYFRIEND FOREVER!).

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Maybe We Need to Have Fun

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Maybe We Need to Have Fun

I did a study on personalities recently, and people with the personality type that best matched mine supposedly “have trouble focusing on boring things.”

Oh HAHAHAH I don’t relate to that at all it’s just exactly what my problem is every single day. I swear to you, I cannot clean and cook within the same week or my soul shrivels up and dies. It’s either a cleaning week or a cooking week and no matter how many tricks I try, this is how it must be if I am to stay nice and pretty and humble.

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