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God’s Love For Me {The Glorious Table}

15 Tuesday Feb 2022

Posted by Brooke Fradd in God's hand, national park, The Glorious Table

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Bible study, God, my darling love, The Glorious Table

My husband and I are one of those sappy couples filling our social media timelines this month with public gestures of love. On our anniversary this past year, I snapped a selfie of us kissing in front of “our church,” the place we got married in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park over a decade ago. We’ve also sought out the help of strangers to take photos of us as we posed, making a heart with our joined hands. We don’t shy away from expressing our love in a public fashion.

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June 2020: Share Four Somethings.

28 Sunday Jun 2020

Posted by Brooke Fradd in family, fun and games, Monthly Review, travel

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camp fradd, family, fiction, friends, fun, my darling love, quotes, reading, reflection, travel

“I was faced with a dilemma …A
I could either wrestle with my life …
Or I could plunk myself down right in the middle of the mess and realize that the mess is actually my life, the only one I’ll ever get, the one I’m in danger of missing completely, waiting around for fantastic.”

Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist

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February Highlights

22 Saturday Feb 2020

Posted by Brooke Fradd in daily thanks, family, link-ups, Monthly Review, the big move

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books, camp fradd, family, february, fiction, moving, my darling love, reading, Valentine’s Day

Once again its time to review the month and share the things which stood out most for me. February has flown by, but I’m pretty sure that’s just a combination of stress and old age. Between the doctors’ follow-up visits for Jay and the pressure of the impending move, my hair stylist is going to earn her pay coloring my hair at the end of the month.

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Romance – Camp Fradd Style

19 Wednesday Feb 2020

Posted by Brooke Fradd in family, fun and games, holiday, stream of consciousness

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1000gifts, adventures, beer, blessings, family, gratitude, holiday, local flavor, marriage, movies, my darling love, sickness, story, tavern, Valentine’s Day, wife-of-the-year

Valentine’s Day was low-key at Camp Fradd this year. We’re in the process of a move, in addition to the medical issues we’ve faced this year.

Me: What do you want for Valentine’s Day this year?

Jay: To just take you out to dinner, and you to be happy with nothing more.

Me: Throw in a giant card and you’ve got a deal.

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Life 2020: In Sickness

14 Friday Feb 2020

Posted by Brooke Fradd in family, sharing spoons, stream of consciousness, Uncategorized

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family, free-writing, health, illness, life, marriage, my darling love, pain, sickness, treatment, wife-of-the-year

LIFE – This was the one-word prompt provided for the Five Minute Friday link-up a couple of weeks ago. LIFE got in the way and prevented me from turning in my homework on time. But our LIFE has been a bit crazy these past 6 weeks, and I wanted a chance to unload my brain a bit.

The dominos fell slowly. Camp Fradd came down with the flu just after Christmas. Jay got sick on Friday, by Sunday he had given it to me. For Jay, pneumonia followed closely behind.

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Direction – Looking Back to Move Forward

15 Wednesday Jan 2020

Posted by Brooke Fradd in 100DaysProject, family, Foothills Voices, fun and games, stream of consciousness, travel

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2019 lists, adventures, bullet journal, concerts, family, hiking, journaling, my darling love, project, scotland, storytelling, west highland way, writing

In reviewing 2019 and looking forward to 2020 (the year of my 40th birthday!), I’ve considered what direction I want to take my writing. Seasonal fatigue mixed with stress about moving to a new house (if just up the street), has left me with not much energy to devote to writing. Then I got the flu, which I’m still recovering from.

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Here’s to October

29 Tuesday Oct 2019

Posted by Brooke Fradd in book review, family, fun and games, link-ups, Monthly Review

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books, concerts, fun, halloween, holiday, learning, monthiversaries, my darling love, reading

The leaves are finally starting to turn here in my corner of the Smoky Mountains. As we wrap up the month of October, I wanted to share a few of my favorites this month.

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The Confident Woman in My Photos

18 Friday Oct 2019

Posted by Brooke Fradd in healthy living, link-ups, travel

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10 things to tell you, body image, my darling love, scotland, travel, west highland way

When I look at the pictures from that vacation I don’t see me, not really. Sure, the woman in the photos looks like me and is creating memories I currently possess. But she seems far more joyful and confident than I consider myself to be.

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