Author: Amy
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Bible in 90 Days is coming soon
It’s almost time!! I’ll be sharing the dates and official signup information soon right here on MomsToolbox.com. Start thinking about it. Start praying about it. Whom will you ask to join you in reading?
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Houston restaurants join forces with the Thread Alliance to raise money to prevent child abuse
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month and more than 30 Houston restaurants are helping to raise awareness of child abuse and raise funds to end it via “Blue Plate Special” offerings. A portion from the purchase of each Blue Plate Special this month will go to the Thread Alliance.
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Christ-Centered Easter Activities for Kids
Looking for some fun and meaningful activities to do with your children to celebrate Easter? Here are a few I thought you might enjoy… Bible in 90 Days grad and previous mentor Candace over at His Mercy is New has five cross-centered craft projects for little kids up to big kids. I think I might…
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Easter Bunny Bun
How cute is THIS?! Seriously? My daughter saw the Scunci Easter Bunny kit at the grocery store over the weekend and, yes, I COULD have made this myself, but opted not to do so. We snapped it up and today I did her hair in about 3 minutes. And it looks ADORABLE, don’t you think?…
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And then there was the blood clot, and SXSW
You know when you go to the hospital emergency room and they scan your ID bracelet, except it doesn’t work? And then the nurse realizes that’s because he is scanning the bracelet from the OTHER hospital you visited that day? Yeah. That happened to me last week. The hospitals are right next to each other,…
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NeuBible: a new, gorgeously-simple Bible app
NeuBible, a new gorgeously-simple, easy-to-read Bible app just launched yesterday in the App Store. It costs $1.99 and I’ve just downloaded it and begun playing with it. It comes with three translations free (The World English Bible, American Standard Version and King James Version), with a fourth offered as an in-app purchase for an additional…
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day
I hope you are having a wonderful St. Patrick’s Day, any way you celebrate it. I’m definitely wearing green, my daughter and one son are wearing their green, and I have no doubt my mom is sporting green, too. In high school she got in trouble for dying her hair green on St. Pats’s Day…
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Knee Arthoscopy & Recovery
It’s been nearly one week since I had knee surgery. The recovery has been much slower than I anticipated. That could be because I missed a few sentences that explained how long recovery would take in my eagerness to get well. Let me back up a bit…
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The 5th Annual Kosher Chili Cookoff in Houston
It’s almost rodeo time here in Houston, which means the Kosher Chili Cookoff is right around the corner! And I get to serve as one of its judges! Are you in Houston? I’d love for you to make plans to join me at the fifth annual Kosher Chili Cookoff, Sunday, March 8, from 11 a.m.…
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A few positive affirmations for you…
This past Sunday I presented the devotional for a team of ladies who are hosting a women’s retreat this weekend. I have the privilege of serving with them. I started the devotional by asking everyone to repeat a few things after me. I thought each of us could benefit from the exercise, as well. So, go ahead, read…
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Letting Him be my Shepherd
Yesterday I mentioned that I will be reading and praying through Candace Crabtree’s Wait Only Upon God this Lenten season. This morning’s devotional featured Psalm 23, the one where we are to recognize that He is our shepherd, that He guides us, and that accepting those things can bring us peace. Candace provides a prayer…
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Do you observe Lent? How?
Growing up, my family never observed Lent. But, then again, we were mostly an Easter- and Christmas-only church-attending family, so we didn’t really observe many religious traditions or rituals. In junior high I started attending a Baptist church with a friend on Wednesday evenings and sometimes Sundays, but I don’t remember Lent being mentioned. It’s…
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My Positive Playlist– What’s on yours?
A friend of mine just asked his friends on Facebook to list some of their favorite super optimistic songs so he could create a playlist. He tagged me in the post specifically, so he must think I’ve already got one. And he is right. I started a playlist of positive, uplifting songs a few years ago while…
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Knee Surgery and MS 150
In my last post I shared that it looked as though I needed knee surgery to take care of a tear in my meniscus. My knee had been hurting for quite awhile and finally I made the connection that it had begun hurting after I fell in the MS 150 bike ride from Houston to…
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A quick trip to Napa and TV appearance in Houston were just a part of my week…
What a week! Monday I found out, while waiting to have an MRI done on my knee, that it would be wise to attend the Wine Market Council’s annual meeting in Napa which was Friday. I logged onto United, checked for award flights, booked the trip and asked my rock star assistant, Brittany, to reserve…