What to Do When Your Children Are Shushed in Church?

Rut-row, I’m in rouble! (That’s my best Scooby impersonation!) I don’t know about you other moms and dads out there, so this week I will just come right out and ask you all:  Have you and your children ever been “shushed in church”? I guess maybe I should preface the course of events with a…

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Sunset Celebration

Among the West Virginia hills, our family has a tropical tradition originating along the shores of Key West! Sound like an unlikely combination? Add toddlers, teenagers, cousins, neighbors, s’mores, and guitars and you’re instantly in the Hott Family’s nightly tradition: SUNSET CELEBRATION! Secluded among the trees on our mountain ridge, we were first unaware of…

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153

Are you wondering what this crazy 46-year-old-completely-grey-haired-mama-of-four must be thinking?  153.  Hummmmm…. Apparently, it must be some random number, right?  One Hundred and Fifty-three…let’s see; could it be on a check? 153! But 153 is not a bill payment or any amount of money on a check, no.  Although 153 could be the number of…

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