Love Life — Susie Davis

talking to your children about tragedy

May 22, 2013 by Susie Davis

This morning, I managed to forget how to make coffee.

I knew something was wrong when the coffee maker started spitting and sputtering out hot coffee all over the counter. It was getting the job done, sort of, but in the messiest way. I couldn’t figure it out until I waited for the pot to finish brewing and peaked inside.

Apparently, I loaded up Mr. Coffee with a flimsy filter but no basket for support. The coffee was weak. The counter was a mess. So I cleaned it all up and started over. Luckily, I didn’t wreck the coffee maker.

I think sometimes that’s the way we handle talking to our kids about all the sad and horrific things happening in the world today. We are sure to use our filter of how we see things transpiring and how we feel about them. We watch the news and feel for those hurting.

But sometimes we miss the basket that is there to support the filter: God’s truth and His word. [Read more...]

brave

May 15, 2013 by Susie Davis

I would have gladly danced in this video if Sara had only asked me …

I’m sure that doesn’t surprise my friends and family.

But really, I love these lyrics:

Everybody’s been there, everybody’s been stared down by the enemy.
Fallen for the fear and done some disappearing, bow down to the mighty.
Don’t run, stop holding your tongue.
Maybe there’s a way out of the cage where you live.
Maybe one of these days you can let the light in.
Show me how big your brave is …

get out there and have a big, brave wednesday!

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don’t be afraid.

April 18, 2013 by Susie Davis

This is Grace. My nephew’s daughter. She is the closest thing I have to a granddaughter.

I worry about the world she’s growing up in.

Because I was still struggling to understand Monday’s Boston marathon nightmare when I woke up this morning to hear about the devastating explosion in West, Texas. Fires burning, lives lost. These are our neighbors. I add them to my prayer list. This list of people whose lives are turned upside down. [Read more...]

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weekend notes

March 15, 2013 by Susie Davis

I’m so happy it’s here … the weekend.

I plan on soaking in a s-l-o-w Saturday. Maybe hitting a few garage sales and stopping by the barn. The weather here in Austin is simply gorgeous. Happy little blooms are popping up everywhere. So this is the time we get outside and say grace over 70 degree weather. Soon enough, we’ll have the heat.

Yesterday, Kate and I met at a favorite new spot of mine: Epicerie. We met Pete (instagram above). Pete poured us some sunshine ~ and suddenly it was Mimosa Thursday. Isn’t it funny how a small unexpected pleasure can turn an otherwise nice day into ridiculously awesome? (If you get to Epicerie, try their spinach salad w. poached farm egg. Oh my!)

The Staves ~ Watching West [Read more...]

Are you ready to parent teens?

February 19, 2013 by Susie Davis

I only found out my youngest, Sara (a freshman at UT), went on a weekend road trip because I stalk her on instagram. This is a tool you’ll want to have on hand if you have teenagers.

It was through instagram I discovered Sara was in Galveston. Not Austin. Yep, she posted these pictures

… so I shot her a text. [Read more...]

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peace begins with a smile.

February 12, 2013 by Susie Davis

Love this quote from Mother Teresa ….

Thought you might like it, too.

Keep in peace and keep smiling.

much love.

3 Books to Change Your Mind

January 22, 2013 by Susie Davis

It’s such a relief to meet a truly helpful book. Today, I want to introduce you to three books I’m currently reading that are not only helpful, they’re changing the way I think.

You want to quit eating so much junk food, skipping exercise, and procrastinating but you just can’t seem to do it.

Read The Power of Habit and learn about the 3 step habit loop. Fascinating.

Hardcover * Kindle

You want to stop comparing and worrying about why you don’t have what they have, get to do what they do but you’re stuck. [Read more...]

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what to do if you have the flu.

January 11, 2013 by Susie Davis

My neighbor, Kristin, has it. So does her daughter.

And now my dad has it. :(

Everybody’s coming down with it.

There is something you can do if you get the flu …

And eat lots of chicken soup. [Read more...]

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Hello 2013

January 1, 2013 by Susie Davis

Well hello, 2013. I am tempted to greet you aggressively. With a big, sharp, pointy list of RESOLUTIONS in hand.

I want to charge out: A warrior on a horse, my personal to-do list a sword. Ready to attack the things I’d like to change about myself. Things obvious. And things hidden.

For me, 2012 is awash with things I never did do. Or didn’t do well. Chock full of personal and professional fails. So this idea of RESOLUTIONS is more than appealing. Out with the old, in with the new. Purge, purge, purge. Ditch the old me for a fresh, fixed-up new me. The me that finally and completely does everything I should do and all I want to do. Sign me up.

And yet I realize if I construct a sharp, pointy list of RESOLUTIONS ~ there is a strong possibility I will turn it on myself when I fail. It might be a couple days … or just hours … but oh yes, I’ll fail to meet the standards I set for myself. And then there will be remorse and shame. And a heaping help of self-loathing. And that’s when I’ll use the sword to stab at myself. For failing to meet my expectations. [Read more...]

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