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Giveaway in a Shoe

So... one of my absolute favorite blogs from my many months of blog lurking... is Life in a Shoe. This is a fun and encouraging blog from a family of 11, and I have really enjoyed learning from it. Today there is a GIVEAWAY at Kim's blog and I personally have entered. But... considering I don't have a large following of readers yet I'm not too worried about much more competition entering :) And on that note... back to my finals week preparations!

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Good News!!!

Jake has been officially accepted to seminary! Praise God!!

Of course... I never had any doubts, but this is such a relief for him and, therefore, for me :) Speaking of relief I am over halfway done with all of my end of the year projects and papers and on the downhill side of the semester. After holding back tears last week when I came to the realization of how much time I had left to do everything, this is a welcome accomplishment.

However, I most certainly could not have done it without my wonderful almost-hubby. Last Friday I was sitting in the library for about twenty minutes staring aimlessly at my screen. I instant messaged him to tell him that I harbored absolutely no motivation to do any homework whatsoever. I was expecting a sympathetic "I'm sorry dear, is there anything I can do for you?" response but instead I was met with "Maybe you should just do your homework anyway." My knee-jerk reaction was *grrr* at the very least. But I decided to take his advice and before I knew it I was on a roll! That has kept up throughout the week and I am completely caught up on all of my assignments. Oh sweet joy of accomplishment... So here is to Jake reminding me that just because I don't feel like doing something doesn't mean I can't do it.

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Fun Conversations of My Life...

Me: "Jake, do you realize that you could be a dad this month?"

Jake: "...woah..."

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