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My Oxygen Mask
Recently my cavity-prone child had to get a few more "quadrants" of baby teeth filled, mostly due to overcrowding and a strong gag, but I...
Katie Smith
Mar 24, 20243 min read
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Mary Poppins Pride
If you've ever met someone who always has the very thing you need in the very moment you need it, then you've met my mother. Whether its...
Katie Smith
Mar 17, 20243 min read
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A Decade Later, A Different Road
10 years ago we were traveling by car (as seen above) in the countryside of southern France. Our travel garmand was dying and our small,...
Katie Smith
Mar 11, 20243 min read
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Roses or thorns-which do you see?
We had finally made the kitchen at our first home the way I would have wanted it all those many meals made during the years prior. But we...
Katie Smith
Mar 3, 20243 min read
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Finding our Swing, on the Road
I picked up a great biography for my own summer reading last year, "Boys in a Boat." If you're not into crew, rowing, Nazi Germany, or...
Katie Smith
Feb 25, 20243 min read
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Is this normal?
In all my pediatric medical experience (which only amounts to a little less than a decade of intensive motherly care units), I've...
Katie Smith
Feb 15, 20243 min read
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Contagious virus
One of my deepest triggers for anxiety when I was growing up was illness. Like most people, I hated being sick, so I thought if I could...
Katie Smith
Jan 19, 20243 min read
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What should we keep?
As we took down Christmas decorations this year, I heard a lot of "NO NOT THAT!" Because much of them went into donation bags or trash...
Katie Smith
Jan 5, 20243 min read
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No room left
When my kids do not want to hear what I have to say because it goes against their plans, they cover their ears with cupped hands and hope...
Katie Smith
Dec 16, 20233 min read
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We are getting off...
Stepping off the hamster wheel A friend just told us, "I get up, take the kids to school, workout, work, come home, eat dinner, play with...
Katie Smith
Nov 28, 20233 min read
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Not Depressed, but Discontent.
We can have all that we need physically, know our purpose spiritually, and be healthy mentally, yet still wrestle with discontentment....
Katie Smith
Nov 14, 20233 min read
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Sick of my story--rewind & repeat.
Have you ever woken up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and then you can't fall back asleep because you're replaying...
Katie Smith
Oct 27, 20233 min read
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Mob mentality
I remember it like yesterday-- the lights, the smells, the screams. My fond interest in the boyband quickly became a love affair after...
Katie Smith
Oct 12, 20234 min read
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Free time--swapping out prison clothes
For the first time ever, I have all my kids in a regular five hour class--- wait for it---just once a week. While that seems like barely...
Katie Smith
Sep 25, 20234 min read
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Scared
My kids were recently discussing what they were scared of after one of them was screaming at the sight of a talking mannequin, albeit a...
Katie Smith
Sep 5, 20233 min read
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making decisions
Fluidity and flexibility are necessary in managing expectations, I know that full-well! But when it comes to solid decisions, fluidity...
Katie Smith
Aug 17, 20232 min read
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Stuck
Ever been stuck between a rock and a hard place? Ever banged your head against the wall over and over not knowing why? Ever hit a dead...
Katie Smith
Jul 31, 20232 min read
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America the Teenager
Whether you were a rebel or a saint in your adolescent years, a seed of rebellion exists in every single soul. By definition to rebel...
Katie Smith
Jul 11, 20233 min read
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Team Captains: a tribute to good dads
Some people just like to compete to make things "more interesting." My oldest son creates competitions out of everything, and of course,...
Katie Smith
Jun 19, 20234 min read
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Vantage Point
You know those pictures that you could stare at for hours and not realize their was another hidden picture inside of it? You know those...
Katie Smith
May 30, 20233 min read
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