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Verily Us: Vacation: Push the pause
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Vacation: Push the pause. I love vacation. Love everything about it. There is something so special about packing up the family and heading out of town on an adventure together.I love the break from the daily grind; love the quality family time, exploring and experiencing both familiar and new things together; and I especially love the beach! In Naples. This year we tried something completely different and rented a resort condo at a place called the GullWing. In addition to savi...
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Verily Us: December 2013
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Thursday, December 12, 2013. Chloë's Sugar Cookie Christmas Tree. I am so excited! Chloë and I finally got to make cookies together! We've been so busy with work, school, sports, dance, decorating and everything else that. Doesn't fall under those categories that i was wondering if it would ever get done. I. Found this recipe at. The bars are SO much easier than the cut-outs ones and as you'll see below can still be fun for the little ones. 2-1/2 cups bread flour (or all-purpose flour is fine). Set aside...
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Verily Us: October 2014
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Thursday, October 30, 2014. Jumbo Cranberry Lime Pound Cake Muffins. Hello friends and family and happy almost Halloween/Harvest/Fall Celebration or whatever you call it! We have a couple kids in the Gorgas household that are getting really excited for costumes & candy: Chloë is going to be Princess Merida. From the movie Brave, and Hunter who says he will not dress up but he will go get the candy anyway. I told him to at least put his football helmet on! I have had a fascination with the large, jumbo mu...
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Verily Us: January 2014
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014. Serving and the Change of Heart. I want to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to God for all He has done in my life, and my family's life. Life is full of daily challenges, and becoming fixated on the issues and problems of life takes virtually no effort at all. But life is also full of daily victories and blessings, and I've noticed that becoming fixated on the "good stuff" of life often takes real effort. Where do you go? Thanks for reading,. 38 Jesus Him...
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Verily Us: November 2013
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Sunday, November 17, 2013. Home is where my family is. There’s an old saying,. Home is where the heart is. Very true, but I prefer a slightly modified version:. Home is where my family is. I’ve been thinking about this idea of “home” a lot lately as we’ve been closing in (. On the sale of our home in Whitinsville, where our family lived for 7 years. I say “home,” but is that place now a “house? 8221; When is a house just a house, and when does it become a “home? With a capital "F" and a capital "UN"!
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Verily Us: Good News and the Contrasts of Life
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Thursday, March 5, 2015. Good News and the Contrasts of Life. Vacation. One of the easiest topics to write about. In fact, it was about this same time last year that I was writing about how vacation is about. Pushing the pause" button. Well now, in the midst of one of the worst winters in the history of winter, I am both happy and sad to report that we just recently returned from vacation in sunny Naples, FL. Happy because we escaped this…. In exchange for this. Sheep-a-snow-doodles and hungry seagulls&#...
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Verily Us: October 2013
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Saturday, October 26, 2013. How to Make a Window Screen. Ever had a window screen in your home get broken or lost and needed a replacement? Ever found yourself wondering just how to go about getting a replacement screen? Ever wondered what it would cost to replace a screen? And even if we had decided to just suck it up and stay with the half screens, several of them had tears in the mesh so needed to be repaired or replaced anyway. My first thought was, No big deal! Sold for $13 by Home Depot. So I ran t...
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Verily Us: February 2014
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Thursday, February 6, 2014. Staircase Redo: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. We've had our eye on re-finishing our stairs ever since we bought our house last June. While many updates were done by the previous owners, one of the more pressing fixer-upper projects on our list was re-doing the stairs and staircase. We couldn't WAIT to rip off and reveal what was underneath! 1 There really is such a thing as fast-drying stain. This was unclear from our prepatory research, and most of what we read beforeha...
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Verily Us: December 2014
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Monday, December 22, 2014. A Very Merry Christmas! It's December, and that means, as the old song says, that it's "The most wonderful time of the year! I truly believe that it is! But I think it all turned out great and it's such a joy each day to be able to enjoy our festive holiday home! We're toying with the idea of getting our Christmas stuff up right after Halloween next year (or better yet, maybe before Halloween! The turkey was cooked to perfection - juicy, hot, mouth-wateringly delicious! Holy co...
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Verily Us: A Very Merry Christmas!
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Monday, December 22, 2014. A Very Merry Christmas! It's December, and that means, as the old song says, that it's "The most wonderful time of the year! I truly believe that it is! But I think it all turned out great and it's such a joy each day to be able to enjoy our festive holiday home! We're toying with the idea of getting our Christmas stuff up right after Halloween next year (or better yet, maybe before Halloween! The turkey was cooked to perfection - juicy, hot, mouth-wateringly delicious! Holy co...
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