lifted on the breeze
How it’s mid-August already is beyond me. How has your summer been? If you haven’t yet I hope you take these last precious weeks and dip...
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here are my stories
Words are my super power. I believe the stories we tell shape our reality. When we actively participate in being the author of our story we choose the lens we see life through. This empowered perspective allows us to seek joy in the mundane, pleasure in the ordinary, excitement in the routine.
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Emmy Pickering
- May 23
- 7 min
something of my own
It’s May and this is the month we were meant to be moving. I’m picturing myself in late August 2023, staggering under the weight of...
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Emmy Pickering
- Mar 13
- 8 min
The Great Plan, part 3
How It All Ends It’s January first, the dawning of a new year. As has become our tradition we celebrated New Year’s Eve with a quiet...
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Emmy Pickering
- Mar 9
- 6 min
The Great Plan pt 2
Not As It Seems It’s December 2023 and Christmas is just around the corner. Such a mild winter, our kids were bemoaning the lack of snow...
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Emmy Pickering
- Mar 7
- 5 min
The Great Plan pt 1
A Good Start I haven’t known where to start with this. I think I just kept waiting for the resolution, the grand finale. I’ve been...
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Emmy Pickering
- Aug 25, 2023
- 4 min
Making Home pt 3
At the end of the day, home is a feeling not a place I begrudge what I just wrote above. I’ve been without a solid home of my own for...
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Emmy Pickering
- Aug 14, 2023
- 5 min
Making Home pt 2
I felt the women were being called home, what does it mean? Why have I shied away at posting this for so long when the truth raged in me...
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Emmy Pickering
- Aug 8, 2023
- 6 min
Making Home
Part 1, 2022: I walked slowly from our friends’ main house to the pool house, where my family was already tucked in. The bigger girls...
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Emmy Pickering
- Jul 23, 2023
- 7 min
Sink or Swim
Where am I? That seems to always be the first thing I want to start with — I’m on my friend Jeni’s couch in her gorgeous, ultra-feminine,...
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Emmy Pickering
- Feb 15, 2022
- 11 min
Saved by Grace
In late January Steve and I looked at each other and had to do a big check in. What are we doing? On our 15th rental, having spent our...
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Emmy Pickering
- Nov 30, 2021
- 4 min
Harder Than It Looks
Fast forward nearly 6 weeks into this journey and I have yet to take that breath. That’s not entirely true, I have experienced moments of...
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Emmy Pickering
- Nov 2, 2021
- 5 min
Answering The Call
But wherever you go, there you are. Have you heard that expression? Though our geographical location has changed by some 4000 miles south...
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Emmy Pickering
- May 26, 2021
- 6 min
Too Good To Be True
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE; The saying itself denotes that something that is good cannot equal truth, doesn’t it? Or that we don’t believe that...
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Emmy Pickering
- Apr 28, 2021
- 6 min
It Hurts
I remember once when I got my two dollar allowance (remember two dollar bills?!) and I promptly gave it to a man begging on the street....
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Emmy Pickering
- Dec 30, 2020
- 10 min
2020 Vision
2020 gotcha like? 2020 vision; It’s almost too easy to use that term this year but boy does it feel appropriate. Just over a year ago I...
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Emmy Pickering
- Dec 9, 2020
- 6 min
Hold onto the Magic
It’s a hysterical start to our day, and not the good kind. Heavy emotions and a lot of questions that we’re not sure how to answer. Steve...
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Emmy Pickering
- Nov 25, 2020
- 5 min
Something Worth Celebrating
Sometimes after the girls are in bed I look through the photos on my phone and see them in the quiet of the moment I’m in, instead of the...
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Emmy Pickering
- Oct 28, 2020
- 5 min
To Sustain Us
This experience doesn’t exist today. Not readily, not easily. Sure it still does for the few who are not willing to depart from what they...
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Emmy Pickering
- Sep 23, 2020
- 7 min
A New World
I’ve had the beautiful distractions of house hunting and moving plus taking on a homeschooling rhythm, it’s given me a needed rest from...
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Emmy Pickering
- Sep 9, 2020
- 6 min
Here We Are
Currently I’m sitting in my office — it’s not also a baby’s nursery, it’s not also a catch all for my kids extra stuff, it’s not either...
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