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A Harrowing Grandma Experience by Chris’s mom, Lynne, guest blogger

With our children grown and living in Kansas City and Kentucky, we can seldom be all together. But this Thanksgiving was going to be different! We were going to take all our grown kids: our son Chris, his wife Michelle, their six-month old daughter Lydia,  and our son Brian, to Kentucky for Thanksgiving to visit daughter Liz and husband Dan. We had all kinds of fun plans; Churchill Downs for Thanksgiving Dinner, the Husker game…

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The Voice of Remodeling Experience by Chris’s mom, Lynne, guest blogger

After 38 years of marriage, my husband, Don, and I are finished remodeling! (Well, except for helping our grown children with houses.) It has been a long saga, beginning with our starter bungalow, purchased here in Omaha, Nebraska one year after our wedding. The house had beautiful wood floors, but not much else to speak for it. My father-in-law helped us re-front the ugly kitchen cabinets, and he and my mother-in-law helped us paint the…

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Memories of Ireland by Chris’s Mom, guest blogger

DAY ONE: We landed to 40 degree weather and a steady rain coming down. We had a pretty hair-raising inaugural car drive from the airport to our first hotel. Don tended to drift off to the left, since he was used to the driver’s side being about 3 feet to the left of where it now was! After bouncing off the curb a couple of times, he got better. The rental car was already all scraped up…

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Rhodiola Info

Want more energy during your workouts?  Interested in reducing the sore muscle feeling you get the day following a tough workout?  Trying to find something that supports your workouts without harming your body with artificial chemicals? Following are a few resources that you might find interesting and helpful.  For myself, I notice the most dramatic difference using Rhodiola when I do a long “slow burn” type workout like biking 30 miles.  I just tend to have…

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ThriveFit Update!

We’ve added and expanded the workouts available through ThriveFit!  You can now browse through 130 workouts!  Take them one day at a time and watch your body transform into the figure you’ve always imagined.  You’ll find success in fitness, like success in anything, requires lots of hard work, but the benefits incredible! https://totalthriver.com/thrivefit/workouts-6-195/

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Being an Iron Sharpener

Are you a blessing to those around you?  Should you be?  If so, what does it take to effectively speak into their lives, encouraging them and helping them to live a thriving life? Those Who Have Helped You God has designed us for community—we grow through our interactions with others, as iron sharpens iron.  Who are some of the people who have been most positively influential in your life?  Are you glad they took time…

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Doing It All Yourself?

You and I are capable of amazing things—when we let ourselves dream, search out and discover wise means of reaching our dreams, and focus and commit to building ourselves brick by brick, day by day.  God has created us with limitless potential, and you’re used to reading words here that will challenge and encourage you to take action today toward growth and pursuit of your goals.  As you go forth on your journey, however, you…

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