I have a real physiological problem when it comes to my children’s birthday parties. There have been years where the pressure I have put myself under has resulted in us completely missing the event in entirety. Now not everything bad has resulted from COVID, the “reset” on how we did children’s parties was a liberating […]
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Today I broke our website. We have been operating with the same site for about six years now- on my own for about four or those years. I have broken it twice before, once I clicked a wrong button and just “hid it” from the world, second I had a security breach that “hid” it
Today marks LOFT’s eighth birthday and that is remarkable to me. LOFT started as a voice whispering… “Are you willing?” and me answering “no thank you” multiple times over the course of a few days. I had just had my first baby after experiencing a miscarage earlier that year and I fully intended on taking
You know what LOFT family, May is just insane and June is going to be nuts too. At first I was attempting to write a blog that would illustrate all the things that are happening so that I could give you a little sneak peek of what is going on but it ended up turning
I am sitting at my laptop this evening perplexed by the last 48 hours of events that transpired within our home. My hope is that placing the incodenses in print form will allow for some self reflection and hopefully in addition some ideas regarding where we go from here. I was sitting in this very
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It is no secret that if you know me you will most likely have heard my dislike of my high school experience. I wouldn’t say it was awful for any of the reasons many of my peers suffered. I was reasonably logical and where I lacked in curriculum understanding I was able to compensate through
Nowadays there is a lot of talk out there about being the best version of yourself. After all, we are coming out of a few intense years of “hustle culture” and are still reeling from its lingering effects. From that we rolled into a “two week” lockdown followed by a continuous saga of emotional highs
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I wrote this entry a few nights before someone very dear went to be with Jesus. She was a mentor and a friend. I expected that loosing a grandparent as an adult would somehow make more sense or hurt less because I would be more equipped to deal with the ocean of emotions that loss
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Many of you know that I started LOFT on a wing and a prayer. I had finally figured out why I loved to dance so much. I was able to completely be in worship with my God and Father with my whole heart and whole body. As a struggling introvert, I had found my way
I wrote this almost a year ago now and I feel like now is the appropriate time to publish this little diddy. I find it amazing how reading this over again reminds me of how incredibly important this last year has been in my families life. I will never be done learning and I know
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You may find this hard to imagine but I did not thrive in high school. I know – total shocker. I could barely stand it to be honest. If I wasn’t so afraid of “getting in trouble” with any authority figure, I would have skipped it all together. The kids were nasty and poorly behaved,
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I am going to start off with an admission: over this past year, I have been terrified to write. I’ve felt the calling to get back to sharing my uniquely humorous and bizarre experiences in my walk with the Lord, but I flat out said a big old fat “NO WAY!” Looking back, I should
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Written by our very own fantastic teacher- Miss Mackie Announcing that you may or may not have a life-threatening disease is probably not the best way to tell your co-workers that you are home from camp. But, if emergency, the specialist and my emerge nurse mom’s combined suspicion is cancer, the immediate reaction is to
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I am sitting here in my quiet living room at 11:58pm ( or 23:58 as it is now known on my phone, thanks to a little boy who seems to always finds the way to change my clock to hundred hour). I am awake, I should be sleeping. I am exhausted but not tired. Is
Late at night before I close my eyes and go to sleep I really enjoy a good Instagram and Pintrest Fest! I scroll through the photos of the day and it is like bad candy for my eyes- almost the equivalent to sneakily eating a whole bag of chips in bed with out the
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Today I managed to get both of my kids and myself dressed and off to the health unit for our sons first round of vaccinations. My visit this time greatly contrasted that of my first visit with my first born. For starters, I was early today (remarkable), I knew where to park and where to
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Hello friends, I am speaking to you today from the perspective of a women who is 40 +1 weeks pregnant. I would like to begin by saying my pregnancy has been a dream, with all the usual suspects. Swollen feet and hands, morning sickness, wow! Some mighty fierce heart burn, general pain in the usual
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