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Susan Merrill

Encouragement

Using My Productivity Tools in Relationships

  Sometimes, it feels as if there’s an app for everything.  Technology seems to have a solution to every problem, a way to make any situation easier.  But when it comes to relationships in our family, friendships and just using our gifts to serve, there isn’t an app to do it for us.  The best you’ve got is right inside you not in an app.  So rather than looking for a quick trick to help, try taking a deeper look…

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Marriage Sunday Suppers

A Fall Date Night for You and Your Man

It is easy to fall in love with Fall. But in Florida, we have to wait a long, long, sometime never-ending time for Fall. It was 86 degrees on Halloween night last year, and the poor kids were sweating in their costumes. People are often envious of our balmy weather, but when the rest of the world is sporting sleek boots and cozy sweaters I get a little green longing for fiery orange and falling red. When Fall finally makes…

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Encouragement

8 Days of Being Thankful

  I. Love. Christmas. But in my rush to get to Christmas decorating/crafting I have a tendency to slack off on Thanksgiving. So do the malls–our mall was decorated for Christmas three weeks before Thanksgiving! This year, there will be no Thanksgiving slacking! Because our team at iMOM had a great idea, an 8 Days of Being Thankful activity. It is a simple little craft (you supply the ribbon and the printable is FREE) to add some fall flavor in…

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Parenting

When All You Can Do Is Pray–And a Giveaway That Can Help!

  There have been many, many, many days of parenting when all I could do was pray.   Sometimes prayer was my only option because a child was really, really sick.  Like the time I came home from the hospital after giving birth to Emily.  Within 24 hours Megan, at the age of two developed a fever of 103 and dehydration from vomiting.  The next day we were back in the hospital with Megan.   All I could do was…

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Marriage

The Best Advice for Newlyweds

I am thrilled to have my good friend and social media mentor, Fawn Weaver, guest posting today. She is the brilliant brain of the Happy Wives Club and when it comes to being merry in marriage, she is your go-to gal. A guest post from Fawn Weaver: I love being married. I adore my husband. “Sweeter As The Days Go By,” could definitely be our theme song for the past ten years. As newlyweds, however, I found myself wondering when…

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