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Just about four years in, I've figured out something smells funny in my marriage. What happens when your senses don't match your spouse's senses?
Daryn's Blog, Marriage

Something Smells Funny In My Marriage

Something smells funny in my marriage. And by something, I mean someone. And by someone, I mean my husband. He doesn’t smell bad. Rather, wonderful, I must say. But he smells funny, as in his sense of smell. He smells everything. I interrupt our upcoming fourth wedding anniversary to ask, “Why didn’t you mention this before I got married?” Of all the things we were supposed to figure out if we’re compatible—religion, politics, money, raising kids, health. No one mentioned

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Nothing like parenting teens to find out you are a terrible person.
Daryn's Blog, Family, Kids, Life Lessons Took Me Long Time To Learn, Parenting

Sure Fire Way To Find Out You’re A Terrible Person

We’re having a popularity crisis at our house. What do you expect in house filled with teens? How sweet of you to offer your sincere compassion about our kids. Actually, you can save your concern. For them. They are fine. It’s we parents who are not doing so well. In case you haven’t heard– We are terrible people. Truly. Terrible. One teen this week was not allowed to drive home by herself through a bad neighborhood at 1 am. You

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Nurse Pam Medina is overwhelmed after unexpectedly winning custody of her baby granddaughter. A fellow nurse, Sara Putnam, did a huge round up of supplies to help her care for the baby.
Family, Great Giving, Kindness, Uplifting Stories

Co-Workers Surprise Nurse With Supplies When She Unexpectedly Wins Custody Of Infant Granddaughter

Sara Putman’s life is full of surprises these days, beginning with unexpectedly winning custody of her 7-month old granddaughter, Isabella. Inside Edition reports that a co-worker overheard Sara talking about how overwhelmed she was with all the supplies she was going to need. The court-ordered decision came as a surprise, and between Putman’s upcoming shift and the baby on the way, she didn’t have time to collect the items baby Isabella needed. Pam Medina saw Sara going through a donation bin

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Superstar Clint Eastwood and Maggie Eastwood donate 79 acres of land to the Big Sur Land Trust. It's part of restoring the natural habitat of the Carmel River.
Celebrities, Great Giving, Uplifting Stories

Clint Eastwood Makes Wildlife Lovers’ Day-Donates His Land To Public Space

Superstar Clint Eastwood is making the day of wildlife and conservation lovers near his hometown of Carmel, California. The Monterey Herald reports that Eastwood and his former wife, Maggie, have donated 79 acres of land to the Big Sur Land Trust. The new donation will help rebuild restore the Carmel River floodplain and habitat. The couple haven’t been married since the 80’s, but the newspaper says they still do business together. This is the second time their trusts have made

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A rattlesnake gives a Colorado couple an instant lesson in sickness and in health when the snake bites the groom during wedding photos.
Family, Love Stories, Marriage, Uplifting Stories

Rattlesnake Bites Groom During Wedding Shoot

A rattlesnake biting your groom while your taking your wedding photos might not seem like the most uplifting of stories, but I’m sharing it because nothing like this to see how a new couple will weather the storms that come everyone’s way. The Today Show reports newlyweds Johnny Benson and Laura Loretz did what so many couples do–they went to take photos between their ceremony and their reception. The photographer knew just the perfect place–a reservoir near their favorite hiking

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Maine governor's wife, Ann LePage, is spending her summer waiting tables in a seaside town to earn extra money for a new car.
Businesses Who Rock, Food, Overcoming Obstacles, Uplifting Stories

Governor’s Wife Takes Summer Job Waiting Tables

A governor’s wife is turning heads in a seaside town in Maine where she has taken a summer job waiting tables. Ann LePage is the First Lady of Maine. Sounds glamorous. Most of the year she works her tail off supporting causes around her state. Her husband, Paul LePage, makes $70,000 a year, making him the lowest paid governor in the country. The LePages aren’t exactly complaining, but it does mean things can be tight, especially if you want some

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Flight attendant Molli Oliver is dedicated to reuniting military dogs with the veterans they served alongside.
Animals, Friendship, Heroes, Pets, Uplifting Stories

Meet The Woman Reuniting Military Dogs With Their Veterans

Flight attendant Molli Oliver has two great passions–military dogs and veterans who have given brave service to the United States. She’s now on a mission to bring valiant partners back together again. She’s reuniting retiring military dogs with the veterans they served alongside. And she’s doing it at her own expense. Come along as she makes another one of these magical reunions happen. United.com has a little bit more information on the wonderful Molli Oliver. How she’s a Los Angeles-based

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A funny horse insists on teasing and nudging a reporter for Makedonia TV as he tries to shoot a stand up. Instead, he just gets a bunch of bloopers and giggles.
Animals, Overcoming Obstacles, Uplifting Stories

Funny Horse Keeps Reporter Laughing As He Fails At Stand Up After Stand Up

So many of my current and fellow reporters will appreciate this reporter for Greek TV as he tries to shoot a stand up with a teasing horse determined to make him laugh. The Daily Mail says the reporter was trying to do a story for Makedonia TV, which was to include a stand up with Frankie the horse in the background. Clearly, Frankie has very specific ideas on how this stand up should go. And once the reporter gets the

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Beautiful beaches of Costa Rica with threatening storms in background make great representation of life--the beauty and the storms. The joy and the sorrow.
Daryn's Blog, Life Lessons Took Me Long Time To Learn, Travel

What Can You Do With Joy When There Is So Much Hurt In The World?

It was just supposed to be a short vacation. Not a chance to learn yet another life lesson. A chance to not work my brain and my heart so hard. That’s what I was thinking last week as my travel wizard husband pulled one of his miles miracles and flew us off to Costa Rica. Just us. No kids. No worries. That was the idea. At least. Until reality came crashing into paradise. “Did you hear what happened in Orlando?”

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Adoption from overseas can mean your family doesn't look like others and that's okay.
Daryn's Blog, Family, Love Stories, Parenting

When You Know Who Your Family Is, Even If You Look Different Than Others

You’ll forgive my cousin. She’s a little weepy today. Her Facebook feed popped up one of those anniversary photos that remind you where you were a year ago. What a photo. What a year. Amanda and her husband, Adam, were in Ethiopia. Meeting their son for the first time. In person, that is. They met him in their hearts years before. So, you might want to make this “What a three years!” Ask anyone who has adopted, Dear Reader. They’ll

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