How do I react?
This was my devotional this morning and it made me evaluate my reactionHELPING KIDS LEARN FROM THEIR MISTAKESÂ Sometimes successful parenting is all in how you perceive a situation. For example, do you...
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Friends like family
I believe I wrote another post with the same title, but we so grateful for our friends like family, especially since we don't have family here. Steve and I had meetings out of town a few weekends ago...
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Team Southards is making a move
 In November, Team Southards is packing up and moving to Ohio!That is the short version of the story, below you will find the much longer version (but believe it or not, somewhat abbreviated).This...
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Catching up and closing up
The packers came today and swarmed our house, it only took them 5 hours to pack our house where it would have taken me 5 weeks! I am so thankful we were able to have help packing. It is weird sitting...
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Christmas Time
Looking at my blog I just realized it has been almost 2 months since I have written a post. We have now lived in Ohio about 6 weeks. I am going to catch-up going backwards, starting with Christmas.I...
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Birthdays
In the last month we have celebrated Colton's 4th and Payton's 6th birthdays. Since as Payton so pointedly told Colton that he doesn't have any friends in Ohio yet we opted for family celebrations this...
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School
Payton has been loving school here. She has told us that school is her favorite thing about Ohio. She has a wonderful teacher and nice small class (only 10 kids). I wasn't sure how she would do with...
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Music for my soul
Music has a way of reaching my soul. An intimate time of worship is such an intimate conversation between my heart and God's. It doesn't even have to be in a church corporate worship time. Some of the...
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Friends like Family and Family
This past weekend we had a blast with all sorts of visitors. Our dear friends The Branton's made a special trip to Ohio to spend the weekend and celebrate Presley's 2nd birthday. We hung low most of...
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Going "Home"
This past weekend Steve and I went different ways across the country to our own "old" homes. Steve sent me to Florida with only Stetson to give me a little down time without all the kids and he took...
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MO trip
 Last weekend we made a quick trip to Missouri to celebrate our niece's High School Graduation. We spent one night at the Southards' farm and visited Papa Southards in the nursing home. We know Papa...
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A little KC in Ohio
This past week we had some of our best friends, really friends like family, from KC visit us. Zack and Hil and their sweet twins Reese and Ava were our next door neighbors in KC. They have been on this...
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Getting outside and Riding Horses
I know I didn't post much after our move to Ohio and during the winter months. That was mostly because I wasn't sure I needed to report that we sat inside most of the winter and hibernated. We moved to...
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Closing one chapter and starting a new one
2 weeks ago I weaned Stetson 88 months ago I found out I was pregnant with PaytonIn the last 88 months I have spent:44 months pregnant52 months breastfeeding8 months pregnant and breastfeeding 4 months...
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Is this Home Sweet Home?
 Team Southards has put an offer on a house this week. It is a long story that started finding this home over a year ago before we had even fully committed to moving to Dayton. God's hand has been all...
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God's plan
God has a plan that is always better than ours, but He isn't going to force his plan upon us. He gave us free will to choose his path or our own. So many times we get it wrong, think that maybe he is...
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Best week of my life
Ok, the title might be a little exaggeration but it was one of the best weeks in the last 7 years.Steve and I got away kid free for almost a week!Since having kids Steve and I have been diligent about...
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Kids being kids
Let me preface this post by saying, many of our days are at home and monotonous. I am so thankful to be able to stay home with the kids but many days I lose my patience and am overwhelmed. My house is...
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"My Happy Place"
It is one of those mornings that all 4 kids are a complete mess. Our fault for keeping them out late last night but it is worse than I expected. 2 little ones were down for naps by 10am!Great morning...
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Our Fixer Upper
Team Southards closed on a home in Ohio! What an almost 2-year journey this has been. We never imagined it would take so long to find a home here, it has been quite an experience. The home is a...
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Demo Day
The past few weekends we have spent doing demo at our new house. I have had a lot of fun knocking things down. We are thankful we aren't the ones putting it back together! We will let the professionals...
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Our 2-year house hunt
Here is the back story to our housing journey. Check out the previous posts for the details of the home we just bought.This would have been our driveway.Two years ago, we were praying through God's...
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The Plan for The Dump
In the last post I wrote I explained we did not have much luck with housing. So when our current home came on our radar I was excited about the possibilities. I wrote about what sold me on the house in...
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Framing is done
Last we left off I shared the plan for our renovation. It took us over a month to demo the house (working mostly weekends) and the framers were in and out in 2.5 days putting walls back together! It...
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Kitchen Before and After
Well it has been over 1 year since I blogged, oops, I guess other things have been a priority. Last I left you we had walls framed, well the good news is we moved in November 2016. We spent the next...
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