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How Not to Be a Crazy Sports Parent

by Julia Roller · In: Parenting, Uncategorized · on May 26, 2022

It's been an intense spring with all three kids playing on various baseball teams. Many a Saturday afternoon has seen me scurrying around local fields with one team baseball cap on my head and two …

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Category: Parenting, UncategorizedTag: baseball, baseball mom, Little League, soccer mom, sports parent, WWJD, youth baseball

How to Do Nothing

by Julia Roller · In: Book Reviews, Parenting, Silence, Simplicity, Social Media, Uncategorized · on Mar 7, 2022

All three of my kids are now in school (!) and so sometimes I really look forward to Monday mornings, when I can finally GET THINGS DONE. Anyone else relate? Recently, I had a week planned where I was …

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Category: Book Reviews, Parenting, Silence, Simplicity, Social Media, UncategorizedTag: Christian parenting, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell, parenting, productivity, social media

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It’s Fine: Keeping Christmas Meaningful and Manageable

by Julia Roller · In: Parenting, Simplicity · on Nov 9, 2021

All of a sudden it's November, that runaway train season of the year where time hurtles uncontrollably toward Christmas. Every year it's the same for me. I feel slightly confused by the Christmas …

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Category: Parenting, SimplicityTag: Christmas, Christmas crafts, Christmas decorations, simplicity, Wild+Free Holidays

First Days and New Beginnings

by Julia Roller · In: Anxiety, Parenting, The Writing Life · on Sep 13, 2021

It was a big first day of school for my three kids this year--kindergarten, sixth grade, and ninth grade. Three different schools, three different start times. I thought I'd gotten up early enough, …

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Category: Anxiety, Parenting, The Writing LifeTag: back to school, Christian parenting, first day of school, new beginnings, working moms

My Trick to Banish Anxiety

by Julia Roller · In: Anxiety, Parenting, Uncategorized · on Apr 21, 2021

At times in the past year it seemed like we would all be here in this house, occasionally seeing other people in the yard, forever, and that didn't seem like an entirely bad thing. Life had a peculiar …

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Category: Anxiety, Parenting, UncategorizedTag: anxiety, Bible study, Mary and Martha, parenting, spiritual formation, youth sports

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Where You Find Yourself

by Julia Roller · In: Breast Cancer, Gratitude, Uncategorized · on Mar 4, 2021

In December 2019, I was talking with my spiritual director about the following fall. For the first time in almost 14 years, I would have no children at home. I thought I was excited about all the time …

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Category: Breast Cancer, Gratitude, Uncategorized

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Organizing Your Paperwork

by Julia Roller · In: Simplicity · on Jan 26, 2021

It’s a new year and I’m celebrating with a new look to my website!  The people over at Stormhill Media and I have been working on this for months and I’m so excited by the results. Can’t wait to hear …

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Category: SimplicityTag: Lisa Woodruff, Marie Kondo, New Year's Resolutions, organization, organizing, paperwork, The Paper Solution

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Making the Most of Your Family Time

by Julia Roller · In: Parenting, Uncategorized · on Aug 7, 2020

It’s official: online-only school in the fall for all three of my children. So we’ll be spending even more time together. Yay? We’ve had an awful lot of togetherness since this pandemic …

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Category: Parenting, UncategorizedTag: Christian community, Christian parenting, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, fellowship, Life Together, pandemic parenting

God is in Charge

by Julia Roller · In: Mom Seeks God, Parenting · on Apr 22, 2020

Over the past few weeks of sheltering in place, I've... Caught my four-year-old daughter using roughly 40 sheets of toilet paper and LOST MY MIND... Found a forgotten half-full package of flour on …

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Category: Mom Seeks God, ParentingTag: Bible study, Genesis, homeschooling, Jesus Storybook Bible, social distancing, social distancing with kids, The Life with God Bible

What You Do After Cancer

by Julia Roller · In: Breast Cancer, Gratitude · on Feb 10, 2020

I drive to the medical center trying my best to distract myself with a podcast I’d saved just for the occasion, but once I check in and sit down it’s no longer possible to forget that it’s time for my …

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Category: Breast Cancer, GratitudeTag: after cancer, breast cancer, cancer free, cancer survivor, gratitude, Romans 8:28

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Back to School, Back to Work

by Julia Roller · In: Parenting, The Writing Life, Uncategorized · on Sep 6, 2019

Embracing the Rhythm of the School Year As much as I anticipate and love summer, by the time we get to about mid-August I am looking forward to the start of the school year. I don't exactly throw …

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Category: Parenting, The Writing Life, UncategorizedTag: back to school, parenting, school year, the writing life

Easy and Effective Ways to Encourage Your Young Athlete

by Julia Roller · In: Parenting · on Jun 28, 2019

Spring and summer are all about baseball in my house. Then just when baseball is winding down, soccer starts up in earnest. Between my two sons, it sometimes seems as though most of my time is spent …

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Category: ParentingTag: affirmations, encouragement, youth baseball, youth soccer, youth sports

Find Your Flow

by Julia Roller · In: Parenting, Simplicity · on Jan 16, 2019

  When I speak to groups of moms with young children, I ask them to close their eyes and think of the last time they felt themselves relax into the moment so much that they lost all sense of …

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Category: Parenting, SimplicityTag: Christian parenting, flow, kairos, Mikhail Csikszentmihalyi, simplicity

Mom, I Don’t Pray

by Julia Roller · In: Prayer · on Oct 10, 2018

“I don’t pray,” my ten-year-old son said the other day at the dinner table, and my heart just about stopped. “What?” I said. “What do you mean? Why not? What happened?” My head filled with even more …

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Category: PrayerTag: Christian parenting, Philippians 4:6-7, prayer, praying aloud, praying with children

When You Feel Like You’re Not a Good Enough Mom

by Julia Roller · In: Parenting, Uncategorized · on Jul 27, 2018

I studied all the wrong things in school. Based on my daily life, I would have been much better off had I studied nursing, nutrition, defensive carpool driving, physical therapy, and child psychology. …

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Category: Parenting, Uncategorized

The Spiritual Practice You Didn’t Know You Were Doing

by Julia Roller · In: Parenting, Spiritual Disciplines · on Jan 25, 2018

Several days a week my 2-year-old daughter and I walk several blocks to our church, either for services or Bible study or for her morning preschool. We live so close that I often tell people it's …

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Category: Parenting, Spiritual Disciplines

Cancer-Free: A Resolution of Gratitude

by Julia Roller · In: Breast Cancer, Gratitude · on Jan 4, 2018

On December 28 I went to the cancer center for my yearly mammogram. Because my initial surgery to remove my breast cancer was in December, this anxiety-producing ritual now falls at the end of each …

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Category: Breast Cancer, GratitudeTag: breast cancer, Examen, gratitude, resolutions, spiritual disciplines, spiritual formation

Teaching Kids to Talk (and Listen) to God

by Julia Roller · In: Parenting, Prayer · on Nov 16, 2017

  I once shocked a bunch of kids while giving a children's sermon. I told them it didn't matter if they bowed their heads or even folded their hands when they prayed.  That they certainly …

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Category: Parenting, PrayerTag: Examen, prayer, praying hands, praying with kids

The Secret to Working at Home with Small Children

by Julia Roller · In: Home, Housekeeping, Parenting, The Writing Life · on Oct 2, 2017

I've been working at home for almost 15 years now, both before and after becoming a mom of three. Over the years I've learned many lessons about getting work done at home, in the midst of diapers, …

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Category: Home, Housekeeping, Parenting, The Writing LifeTag: anne lamott, multi-tasking, the writing life, time management, work from home, working moms

Daily Tasks Are Real Life

by Julia Roller · In: Home, Parenting, Prayer · on Feb 16, 2017

My daughter is 15 months old. What that means for my house is that there is no safe place to keep the toilet brush. That as I put the dirty dishes into the dishwasher, she is joyfully unloading them …

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Category: Home, Parenting, PrayerTag: Christian mom, Christian parenting, Kathleen Norris, laundry, prayer

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