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When Mom Is Sick…

by Julia Roller · In: Breast Cancer, Hospitality, Parenting, Uncategorized · on Feb 12, 2023

It should have been a mother's dream. As I lay in my bed with a book, I could hear my husband starting dinner preparations and marshaling the kids into peeling shrimp, chopping vegetables, and setting …

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Category: Breast Cancer, Hospitality, Parenting, UncategorizedTag: breast cancer, self care

In Defense of Gift-Giving

by Julia Roller · In: Generosity, Uncategorized · on Dec 16, 2022

Last week my 7-year-old daughter made a sign, "Don't come in, Luke and Ben!" (Luke and Ben are her brothers), hung it on my door, and disappeared inside my bedroom to wrap Christmas presents, emerging …

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Category: Generosity, UncategorizedTag: Christmas, Gary Chapman, gifts, gifts of the magi, love languages, The Five Love Languages

You Don’t Have to Do It All. Nor Should You.

by Julia Roller · In: Parenting, Uncategorized · on Oct 2, 2022

The night before the first day of school I was lying in the bathtub, indulging in a minor panic attack about all the things I needed to do before everyone headed out in the morning. Someone knocked …

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Category: Parenting, UncategorizedTag: A Nun on the Bus, Christian parenting, letting go, parenting, Sister Simone Campbell

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

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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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

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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

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 Three Lessons of Losing

by Julia Roller · In: Breast Cancer, Parenting, Uncategorized · on Aug 29, 2016

  We just returned home from a weekend soccer tournament. Three games and no wins—one tie and two losses. The second game was a bad loss, one where none of us were quite sure what the final …

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Category: Breast Cancer, Parenting, UncategorizedTag: breast cancer, losing, soccer, youth sports

A New Twist on the Advent Calendar: Celebrating as a Family

by Julia Roller · In: Uncategorized · on Dec 3, 2014

Most of my life I've lived in places where the passage of time was marked by the changing of the seasons. As the weather grew warmer and wetter, I would look forward to the flowers and lengthening …

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Category: UncategorizedTag: Advent, Advent calendar, celebration, Christmas

The Love Lives of Navy SEALs and Why It’s So Hard to Write in the Summer

by Julia Roller · In: The Writing Life, Uncategorized · on Aug 19, 2014

For those of you who think that fiction writers just make it all up, I'd love to tell you about my friend Michelle Ule! She is always researching fascinating subjects--everything from Navy SEALs to …

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Category: The Writing Life, UncategorizedTag: Bridging Two Hearts, Lori Wildenberg, michelle ule, Mom Seeks God, Navy SEALs, Raising Little Kids with Big Love, writing life

The Joy of Parenting

by Julia Roller · In: Parenting, Uncategorized · on Jul 17, 2014

I've seen A LOT of Shamu shows. Living as we do in San Diego, we often find ourselves stopping in at Sea World to feed the seals and sea lions, check out the sharks, and of course, see the …

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Category: Parenting, UncategorizedTag: dancing, joy, parenting, sea world, shamu, singing, This Little Light of Mine, VBS

Two Gifts of Praying with Children

by Julia Roller · In: Prayer, Uncategorized · on Apr 18, 2014

It's Good Friday today, and my church has a beautiful tradition of a prayer vigil that begins after the Maundy Thursday service and continues through the night until the Good Friday service at noon. …

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Category: Prayer, UncategorizedTag: Bible, children, Christian mom, Easter, Good Friday, prayer

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