I married Mr. Right. If you’re married, you did, too. Mr. Right brings his wife flowers on their anniversary. He also forgets their anniversary. Mr. Right loves his children and spends his evenings playing with them. He also gets irritated and yells about how all their noise makes it hard for him to hear the…
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About: Andrea Parunak
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- Andrea homebirths, homeschools, and home churches, and when she gets a spare minute, she can usually be found writing, reading, baking, or sewing. Her deepest desire is to bring glory to the Lord, and she regularly posts on what He’s teaching her over at her blog, Pursuing Titus 2.
Author Archives: Andrea Parunak
Are We Having Fun Yet?
If you give life to a bigger than average brood, you get comments, mostly the tired old “are they ALL yours?” and “you’ve got your hands full!” kind, but sometimes somebody comes up with a new one, something more blunt and honest, something that makes you think about the world and human nature and even,…
But I was Content Yesterday
I talk a lot on my blog about our small house and all my adventures trying to fit our bloated collection of junk into it gracefully enough to manage living here. Well, lately, I’d been feeling like we were doing a pretty decent job. I was content, even excited. We were doing it. We were…
In Solo Seasons
Seven o’clock p.m. and halfway through dinner, my husband gets home. He’s smiling thankfulness at roast beef and baked potatoes and he’s fighting off a cold. By seven-thirty, he’s heading down to the basement for more work. “Mommy and Daddy check-in time at ten?” he asks. “Sounds good.” I smile my bravest. His business is…
Pregnancy Trimester 2
I Emerge from the Worst of the Nausea and Prepare to Conquer the World (or at Least to Dig My Way Out of a Mountain of Laundry) Nearly a year ago, pregnant and overwhelmed, I embarked on a radical journey of streamlining a household routine that had tormented me for most of my married life….
But the Part About You and Me is Still Beautiful
Sometimes life is a pressure cooker. Like when it’s breakfast time in the trailer on a trip in early June and we’ve got to get on the road quickly. Everyone’s blood sugar is low, and I’m nursing the baby with one arm and scrambling eggs with the other, calling over my shoulder to the children…
The New Mommy’s Guide to Managing the House
There have been few things in my life as humbling, horrifying, and bewildering as having a new baby and wondering how I would cope. Before I had my first, I knew all about how to be a mother. I had been raised on cozy stories of how my mother carried me around the house in…
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