Author: Big Family Trips
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15 Tips for the Holidays
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! But that can come with holiday stress, so make sure you check out the following gifs, I mean tips, to make your holidays happy: 1.) Spend lots of quality time with your loved ones. It’s supposed to look like this: 2.) But it won’t. Despite what…
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7 More Parenting
FailsAccomplishmentsIf you didn’t see my last embarrassing post, I’ve started cataloging some of my parenting missteps. And since parenting is hard and I’m an optimist, I like to frame them as accomplishments. 1.) When I came home from work the other day, Rafi greeted me with the news, “I pooped!” I responded with enthusiastic affirmation,…
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The Right-To-Die Effect
I didn’t want to write about Brittany Maynard, because it’s hard to disagree with someone who is dying of cancer and not look (and feel) like a big jerk. But here I sit, trying to write about something else, and I just keep coming back to her story. You’ve probably heard of Brittany. She is…
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God Is Love (Not a Democrat, and Not a Republican)
Midterm elections are swiftly approaching, and as usual, I am pretty clueless… in general, yes, but I meant about who should get my vote. Here’s why: In scrolling through my Facebook feed I came across an image of a fetus placed next to an image of a Latino teenager in a sombrero with a rifle…
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I Married an Undocumented Immigrant – Update
A little story about my husband receiving legal status in the USA.
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On Marriage, Mexicans, and Misunderstandings: I’m not a freaking bird.
First, let me state for the record that I love my husband and have never regretted our marriage, although it’s been a rough road at times. He is compassionate, sweet, intuitive, a great dad, brave, and smart in all the ways that I am not smart. But we fight a lot. Like really, a lot. …
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For Those Left Behind After Suicide
A few of my thoughts on God and mental health after the loss of my big brother to suicide.
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The Pope and I
The Pope was interviewed in 2014, and gave a list of Ten Keys to Happiness. I liked the list overall. Take the Sabbath off? Much needed and very Biblical! Stop harming the environment? We should be better stewards, indeed! A healthy sense of leisure? Heck yeah! The ones that made me pause and think for…
Mercy in the Madness 