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A mom explores what’s next in her life after her kids leave the nest

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Empty Nexter: How to plan your funeral in three easy steps

04/03/2015 nwamamas

By Carrie Perrien Smith I got the call from Mom at 4:10 on the afternoon of Saturday, February 21. It was punctuated with “I don’t know what I will do without your father.” At age […]

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Empty Nexter: Tips for deciding how much to give back

03/06/2015 nwamamas

By Carrie Perrien Smith We just finished wrapping up reviewing our finances and taxes. A big part of that is our charitable giving. I was thrilled we were able to give a nice sum of […]

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Empty Nexter: It’s our time to take the lead

08/13/2014 nwamamas

By Carrie Perrien Smith I love the flexibility and freedom that empty nesting provides me. We all give so much to our family during our child-rearing years that we need the break — but never […]

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Empty Nexter: Why we must take the risk

06/25/2014 nwamamas

By Carrie Perrien Smith I’m the oldest of Generation X. We’re the first generation to know what it is like to enter the workforce and not encounter barriers just because we’re female. We didn’t have […]

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Empty Nexter: How to be remembered fondly — and often

01/29/2014 nwamamas

By Carrie Perrien Smith Sometimes someone enters your life and weaves himself into it. That’s the way Jim was. He married my long-time friend, Kelly, eight years ago. He was a kind, cheerful, easy-going, helpful […]

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Empty Nexter: Living with and letting go of tradition

12/11/2013 nwamamas

By Carrie Perrien Smith The holidays present so many challenges. Probably my biggest one has been managing my daughter’s grandparents’ expectations of her appearance at their holiday meals. She is grown now and has a […]

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Empty Nexter: Two Tips for Preventing Fatigue and Performing Better

10/30/2013 nwamamas

By Carrie Perrien Smith The older I get, the more I need to know about how to make my body perform well. My peak at forty-eight isn’t what it was at twenty-eight. I am proud […]

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Empty Nexter: No honey, you can’t retire yet

08/30/2013 nwamamas

By Carrie Perrien Smith The last thirty days have been full of milestones. We just celebrated my husband’s sixty-first birthday, the fifteenth anniversary of his proposal to me, his thirty-year service anniversary with Walmart, and […]

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Empty Nexter: The difficult decision to prune (your life)

07/08/2013 nwamamas

By Carrie Perrien Smith Each spring, my Japanese maple looks like a teenager with thick, wavy hair who is long overdue for a haircut. It can manage that extra fullness, but it looks a lot […]

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Empty Nexter: Praying powerfully in spite of the unknowns

06/20/2013 nwamamas

By Carrie Perrien Smith Last year, KLRC, our local Christian contemporary music station put a focus on human trafficking. This complex international problem involves acquiring people for use in prostitution or pornography; forced or bonded […]

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