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[ currently offline ] • Name: Talysa McManus • Gender: Female • Birthday: Apr. 26, 1976 (Age: 32) • Location: Middle Tennessee, United States Entries Written: 5 entries Comments Written: 0 comments Signup Date: January 20, 2008 Last Login: July 27, 2008 About Me: Me....I wish I could tell you that I was this phenomenal person the world would be lost without, but I am simply a wife and mom that loves her little family so much it hurts. I have been blessed by God with a wonderful husband (10 years with my best friend) and three beautiful, healthy, happy children that show me just a glimpse of the tenderness of God everyday. I have the awesome privilege of homeschooling my kids. It is a crazy fun filled journey I wouldn't miss for anything! Trust me, they are teaching me more than I'll ever be able to teach them! Gosh, I am so blessed that it overwhelms me! My Friends Are: (7) Alisha, AmandaBennett, blessedmomof10, devdoordeborah, HandsRaisedToHeaven, tiarali79, tn3jcarter I'm A Friend Of: (4) Alisha, AmandaBennett, melirn, tn3jcarter My Interests: (45) My family, My kids, Leading Worship, Traveling, Hiking, Starbucks, Tulips, Teenagers, The ocean, Laughing till I almost pee my pants, date night with my husband, Fondue, working in my yard, Road Trips, Chips and Salsa nights w/ my girlfriends, shopping, Christmas, cotton candy, dancing with my kids, making a complete fool of myself, music of all types, chocolate chip cookies, Predators Games, Funyons, Flannel PJ's, giving hugs, drawing, writing music, attepting to play piano, watching my husband play with our kids, my box fan while I sleep, Dippin Dots (how do they make those?), the smell of hospitals, Sweet Tea, long hot baths, taking pictures, roller coasters, City Life and all its sounds, animals, looking at the stars, hearing my kids laugh, seeing their smiles, Porch Swings, living life to the fullest, anything I can do with my family!

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Five Smooth Stones	5 entries, 5 comments
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Five smooth stones, a giant defeated, and the most unlikely of warriors......isn't that just the wonderful way our amazing God works? I am the wife of my best friend and a mom to the three coolest kids in the world! I am the least likely of homeschoolers....I can still recall the days that I scoffed at the suggestions my friends would make that I too could do what they were doing. They were in my opinion....nuts!!! It is amazing how God can change our hearts without us even realizing it has been changed. And how He seems to just erase the mindset that held us hostage to our fears and doubts prior. I must be honest and tell you that homeschooling does not come as natural to me as it does for some. I stand on the battlefield daily fighting my "giants" that come to slay me and my joy and to rob me of this divine privilege I have been given. The battle against myself rages on.... Fear, selfishness, distrust, pride, perfectionism, exhaustion, feelings of inadequacy, frustration, approval seeking...my giants come in many forms. I would be nothing if not for His grace and mercies made new everyday. When I am imperfect, He is gloriously perfect and I become the unlikely warrior.