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IRL*in real life with Jamie Jo: December 2012
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WOTH Articles by Jamie Jo. Thursday, December 20, 2012. Not Good-bye, But. Why do I always resist change, even when I know something good is up ahead? I think my dh is right when he accuses me of thinking too much. 2012 was a year of changes. Most recently we changed mission organizations. After twenty years with the same group, we have joined another one that more closely fits who we are and what we do. It is a good change, and God has confirmed that we have made the right decision. Instead of feeding a...
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IRL*in real life with Jamie Jo: Scatterbrained Sidetracking
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WOTH Articles by Jamie Jo. Wednesday, October 3, 2012. WOTH named this blog IRL*. In Real Life with Jamie Jo,. But a reader recently commented that I’ve never devoted a post to what “real life” actually looks like for me. At the risk of boring you to bits, I’ve decided to lay it out here and describe a typical weekday for me in Mexico. You’ve been warned.). By 7:00 am my day is well underway. Just like that last paragraph, my day is full of rabbit trails and scatterbrained sidetracking. PE is worth menti...
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IRL*in real life with Jamie Jo: Meet Jamie Jo
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WOTH Articles by Jamie Jo. Grandma Jamie with first granddaughter. Jamie’s friends IRL often wonder why it is that crazy things just seem to happen to her and her family, from the time she got her finger stuck in a date’s steering wheel in high school, to the more embarrassing episode at Target. Buying the now infamous “unmentionables.” Jamie Jo thinks God orchestrates these funnies for people’s amusement. Jamie Jo's family 2011. Jamie Jo is a frequent contributor to the WOTH onlin eMagazine. Brought to ...
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IRL*in real life with Jamie Jo: Stifling ... Contradictions
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WOTH Articles by Jamie Jo. Wednesday, October 10, 2012. Stifling . Contradictions. Ah, the satisfaction of a good healthy sneeze. My mom, bless her heart, tends to sneeze embarrassingly loud with a lusty WA-HOO! And consequently I've spent a lifetime trying to stifle mine. In case you’ve never tried this, it’s painful to swallow a sneeze, and inevitably it results in a high-pitched hiccuppy squeak that sound more like "tee-ew" than "kerchoo," which is equally embarrassing to offspring. I mean, I gave a.
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IRL*in real life with Jamie Jo: November 2012
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WOTH Articles by Jamie Jo. Thursday, November 29, 2012. Quick note from Jamie Jo. Hi, y'all. I'm taking a bit of a break to go see family in the U.S. for about a week. Lord willing, I'll connect with you here again on December 12th. In the meantime, you can go to the old Writer's Blog. And visit some of the other WOTH writers on their blogs listed in the side bar. I plan to do the same once life settles down a bit. Feel free to write me at IRL@lokerfam.com. Posted by Women of the Harvest Blogs. But beyon...
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IRL*in real life with Jamie Jo: WOTH Articles by Jamie Jo
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WOTH Articles by Jamie Jo. WOTH Articles by Jamie Jo. Is it boastful to acknowledge how God helped me overcome my lack of desire to "keep on serving" when it seems unappreciated? How Not to Buy Birth Control. I have never in my life ever purchased any form of birth control.until today. If First Impressions are Important, Then I'm in Trouble. What would people think to see these 'missionaries' at such a hoity-toity place, driving such a cool car, dressed like we were rich and famous? If I Didn't Laugh.
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IRL*in real life with Jamie Jo: Out of the Fog and Back on My Knees
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WOTH Articles by Jamie Jo. Wednesday, February 20, 2013. Out of the Fog and Back on My Knees. After a particularly troublesome spell, I'm finally coming out of the fog. It's been interesting, but not too fun. Maybe this is what separates me from the big time writers and speakers: I still can't reconcile my personal life with my (very limited) public life. How to the "real" writers do it? Rather than reprinting the story here, you can read about a similar lesson in prayer on my personal blog, Memories and...
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IRL*in real life with Jamie Jo: Duty Meets Delight
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WOTH Articles by Jamie Jo. Wednesday, January 23, 2013. Duty, obligation, commitment, and obedience. Don’t those sound like loathsome terms to our 21. We prefer delight-oriented tasks, learning, serving, and everything else we can possibly choose. Over the holidays, I started watching the first two seasons of Downton Abbey. 8211; a delightful. Time killer if ever there was one. It’s given me fuel for thought that even enters my dreams at night. Presently I am in both positions at once. Sometimes there is...
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IRL*in real life with Jamie Jo: Reevaluating the Whole Parenting Thing
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WOTH Articles by Jamie Jo. Wednesday, February 6, 2013. Reevaluating the Whole Parenting Thing. After all these years of living overseas, I still find myself in the role of learner and student, never the expert. I'm not an expert on anything, but especially not in this whole business of raising kids on the mission field. If I ever come across as a know-it-all, just because I've done it for so long, well - I'm not. With a sociable group of lesser football fans. Some will keep their kids primarily in the e...
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IRL*in real life with Jamie Jo: Computer-induced ADD
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WOTH Articles by Jamie Jo. Wednesday, January 25, 2012. Time is another one of my obsessions. I waste more time pondering what in the world I’ve done with it. Dh says I just think too much in general. But honestly, have you taken time to analyze where it goes? In the old days of intense mothering (where some of you currently and seemingly forever reside), one day morphed into the next as I endured those 24/7 shifts seven days a week with no clue such a thing as “free time” even existed. For me, I find wa...
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