Syllabus Shock

I was sitting in my Apologetics class today and the professor asked “…and I’m assuming all of you are juniors or seniors, correct?”
I nodded mechanically, but then my eyes grew huge and my heart began beating rapidly as this thought blew into my mind: I am a senior!!! I am finally a senior! I wanted [...]

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Running

I haven’t been able to run all summer due to my work schedule.  So now that the semester has begun and the gym opens at 6:30 every morning, I am back at it.
I didn’t know how far I’d get, but I surprised myself by running a whole mile and then walking another half a mile! [...]

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My Summer

Most of my summer was spent with some of the sweetest little kids on the planet.  I did my school internship with Breakthrough Urban Ministries and helped with the kindergarten through 2nd grade kids at their summer studies program.  Here are just a few of the precious moments I shared with the kids.

Nakia, Jamel, and [...]

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I Love Showers

My family just returned from a week long trip to the Boundary Waters wilderness of northern Minnesota/Canada.  Well, it was supposed to be a week.  It was cut short due to an unfortunate incident with a brother-in-law, a shifty log, and a saw.  But we still had a blast.
Actually, I was not all that sorry [...]

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Our New Computers

I actually own my very own laptop.  I honestly never thought I would. Ever. But when Stephen’s workplace was upgrading to new lappys and selling their two-year old lappys for $80…well, we just had to jump at that.
I’ve been begging for a laptop for…almost three years now.  And for those of you who can do [...]

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