About Jenny Rae Armstrong

Hi there! I'm Jenny Rae Armstrong, an award-winning freelance writer, full-time ministry student, and mommy to four boisterous boys. I live on black coffee and lots of grace (oh, and my husband's incredible cooking)! I'm glad you stopped by--stay and chat a while!

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It’s ALIIIVE!!!

I LOVE starting things. I love the creativity of brainstorming and fleshing out ideas, the excitement of seeing those ideas become reality and take on a life of their own, the thrill of riding the momentum created by a really good idea picking up speed and becoming more than you could ever make it on your own. I think I […]

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Tithing Time

Aaron and I have never been very good about tithing. We’ve tithed in spurts, but most of the time we’ve just thrown whatever we had crumpled up in our pockets into the offering basket, mumbling something about being in debt, about being broke, about giving time instead of money. (For the record, this is not my desk, […]

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Focus, Girl, Focus!

So, I haven’t blogged since–erm–spring? Wow! Well, I’ve had a good excuse–a full load of classes, kids home all summer, and more work than I had planned on doing, which is a good thing, but also a busy thing. But now, the kids are in back school, music lessons have started, Women’s Retreat at CPBC […]

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Prayers from a 6 Year Old

Carter: “Dear God, thank you for this wonderful day, and thank you for the food. And thank you for making our world better than the dinosaurs’ world–especially the stupid cavemans.” 😀 Read more at http://jennyraearmstrong.blogspot.com.

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Attention Farmville Addicts, Blogoholics, and Facebook Fiends! I Need YOU!

Hi all! Sorry to be AWOL for so long, but in the time since my last post I have: Gotten through the JAM and all its attendant craziness. Applied to (and been accepted to!) Northwestern College. (Paperworkpalooza!) Started two new, large-ish writing projects. It’s one of the writing projects that I need help with. It deals […]

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Reckless

I linked to a post on her blog once before, but can I just suggest that everyone hop over to Katie Davis’s blog a couple times a month? Oh. My. Gosh. She’s a young, twenty-something girl who followed God’s call to Uganda, and his next call to simply stuff her home full of children who needed help. […]

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Dogs in Boyland

It’s astonishing how much young male dogs act like young boys. So, I came home from my vacation to find that my twins (Oberon and Apollo–Apollo decided to take an extended vacation in Obie’s yard for the winter, and I doubt if he will be going home) had not been behaving themselves at all in […]

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Rest

I did not realize until this afternoon how exhausted I was. Again. I can’t help but wonder–is exhaustion just the natural by-product of being a mom? Or maybe the by-product of living in a world where your mental energies are constantly taxed, while your body is allowed to become soft and weak from lack of use? Is […]

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Overheard in the Poplar Market…

(Man obviously surprised to see a friend.): “Well, whaddaya know!” (Smart alec friend): “Not much. How ya doin’?” 😀 I love Wisconsin. 😀 Read more at http://jennyraearmstrong.blogspot.com.

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Layers, Exploding Canyons, and Other Mysteries of Life

This is Jamison, wondering why his family is so weird. Payback, buddy. This is me, wondering how in the world the hairdresser thought that this cut bears any resemblance to “layers, angled around the face.” This is also me putting the pictures out of sequence so my perturbed face isn’t scowling out from the front page of […]

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See you later, Skip…

Yesterday a very special lady slid from this world into the next. And there was a REALLY big party in heaven. 😀 Skip Peterson was an incredible lady, feisty, fun-loving, and as sharp as they came. She was a veritable spiritual Library of Congress, thousands of books stored in her biological hard drive and 91 years […]

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Change Her Life, Change the World.

Happy International Women’s Day! Read more at http://jennyraearmstrong.blogspot.com.

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Equilibrium

I think I figured something out tonight. I’ve been struggling a lot with balance lately, trying to figure out what to do, how to do it, how much of it to do, and when. Something is going on inside me, stirring the waters in my soul, and I can’t touch bottom or figure out which […]

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Adderall, Baby Guy, and the Doggy Man Debacle

Carter (#3) has always been obsessed with “super-dupers,” his term for super heroes. At two, he insisted on wearing his Superman pajamas everywhere–home, church, shopping–and I’d have to dress him in Clay’s matching underoos long enough to throw his in the wash. At four, he began telling everyone who would listen about “baby school” (which took place, evidently, […]

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Like my New Look?

Okay, I am absolutely in love with this new template! Complete blog bliss! Granted, I don’t have any advertisers to stick in the advertising section. (Anyone want a free ad for a while? I need to test out my nearly non-existent HTML skills to figure out how to alter the sidebar, so if you don’t mind being experimented on–let […]

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