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Something to remember . . .
I shared this incident with some friends recently and realized that it was something I want to remember, so I’m sharing it on our blog. There are so many parts of being a mommy that you can never understand or be prepared for in advance. When I imagined being a mom, I knew that it [...]
Caleb’s Christmas Story
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Recent Happenings
We haven’t posted much in the last several weeks, so I thought I would post a Picker Family Update. October was a very busy month for us, and now that it is finally over, we are spending the next few days lying on the couch, trying to recuperate. In mid-October, Casey tore his Achilles’ tendon [...]
Fireproof
Last night, Mary Beth and I saw the movie Fireproof, which was filmed by the same people who did Facing the Giants. I wasn’t a huge fan of Facing the Giants (I thought the message was good, but the acting was bad), so I was a little skeptical about this movie before I saw it. [...]
Are you adopted?
Obviously, we have been thinking about adoption in our family a lot lately, and I’ve noticed that adoption is more common than many of us realize. In our last post, we mentioned our spiritual adoption as Christians, but there is another kind of adoption that is also very common. I’m talking about marriage. When we [...]