tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35563754969838545492024-03-13T07:06:29.785-05:00Hitting the High NotesA blog about the ups and downs of family lifeMartie Spurgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10547489465386183189noreply@blogger.comBlogger698125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556375496983854549.post-22820961366513087992018-12-13T07:26:00.000-06:002018-12-13T07:26:56.800-06:00A Word to the Broken
I went in to get our daughter up for the morning. My life changed forever. SIDS is a silent killer.
Fear seized my heart.
I had to will myself to breathe. And get dressed. And sign papers. And walk out of an emergency
room with empty arms.
I went to bed that night with the realization that I was not
going to be happy for a very Martie Spurgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10547489465386183189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556375496983854549.post-48753985272895508972018-09-25T07:20:00.001-05:002018-09-25T07:22:35.132-05:00Going Home
I am writing this blog post as a declaration
Someday, my life here will end. It may be tomorrow – it may be fifty years from
now; but one of these days will be my last.
It will be the most wonderful day I’ve ever
experienced.
Don’t get me wrong – I love my life. I love my family and the joy they bring to me
each and every dayMartie Spurgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10547489465386183189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556375496983854549.post-51675780768965743862018-04-10T14:50:00.000-05:002019-01-24T07:08:58.594-06:00The Choice
We were eating dinner when my ten year old daughter asked
the question: “What’s abortion?”
It hung in the air – over the dinner table – waiting for an
answer. How do you explain something so horrific? “It’s when they take a baby out of a Mommy’s
tummy before it can live on its own…and let it die.”
She couldn’t understand, why people would make a Mommy take a baby out of Martie Spurgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10547489465386183189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556375496983854549.post-90182728902253040062018-02-05T05:00:00.000-06:002018-02-05T05:00:31.240-06:00The Answer
The assignment was given – and I was excited. I would be able to write about someone I had admired
for years. I had this one! Until I
started the research - only to find that the hero – was just a legend. History
had been rewritten and retold to make it sound better than it was, the man
bigger than he was.
I felt deceived.
Disappointed.
But what happens, Martie Spurgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10547489465386183189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556375496983854549.post-79560609158895049072017-06-19T12:49:00.000-05:002017-06-19T12:49:39.173-05:00From SAHM to FTWM - Lessons Learned
It has been a year since I started working full time out of
the home. Getting a job outside of the
home was one of the hardest decisions I have had to make. Being a stay at home mom was all I had ever
known; and to be honest with you – it was all that I thought I would ever
know. I had never really envisioned
myself working outside the home. When
God opened up a Martie Spurgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10547489465386183189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556375496983854549.post-6318969445810553872017-06-14T10:37:00.002-05:002017-06-14T10:37:11.681-05:00Doing Life - Together
This past month we celebrated another anniversary. A lot of years have gone by since he popped
the question and I said "yes". So much of
life has happened since then that looking back it feels like we were just two
young kids, madly in love with no clue at all about married life. That
evening at the altar with the sun shining through the church Martie Spurgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10547489465386183189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556375496983854549.post-22150720124969770192017-02-28T21:28:00.000-06:002017-03-01T11:56:46.767-06:00Affirming our Faith During Trials<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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On the day he was born - I had no idea that he would become part of our family in a little more than a year.
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The days are getting warmer; and it feels wonderful in the
morning to be awakened to the sounds of birds singing outside. We have Martie Spurgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10547489465386183189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556375496983854549.post-64427124837417516072015-04-17T07:30:00.000-05:002015-04-17T07:30:00.826-05:00Date Your Mate<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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