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When Love Comes Softly: The Day I Didn’t Want to Say Good-bye

July 12, 2017 / Kiersti Giron / Our Story, relationships
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    I hope you’ve enjoyed reading these snippets of Anthony’s and my love story–“Our Story”–so far! Click here if you’d like to catch up on previous installments.   It was late at night—going on 10:30 as we stood talking in the community center parking lot. I needed to get home, and let Anthony go […]

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dating, Janette Oke, karate, Love Comes Softly

Our Story: Of Good Friday, Little Girls, and Opening Hearts

June 7, 2017 / Kiersti Giron / children, Good Friday, Our Story, relationships
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  I hope you’ve been enjoying reading snippets of Anthony’s and my story so far! If you’ve missed earlier installments, feel free to check them out here.   I stood in the darkened church that Good Friday, my heart a mingle of emotions.   Beside me stood Anthony—the first time we had worshipped together. He […]

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Good Friday, love story

Our Story: Of “Getting to Know You,” Virginia Reels, and a Certain Waltz

May 4, 2017 / Kiersti Giron / dancing, Our Story, relationships
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  I hope you’ve been continuing to enjoy Anthony’s and my love story! If you’d like to read the first two installments, click here and here.   Anthony and I were on our second official “outing,” to the local arboretum where he invited me to visit. While I still felt a bit shy and awkward—especially […]

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Getting to Know You song, love story

Our Story: Of First Dates, Critique Partners, and Facebook Messages

April 19, 2017 / Kiersti Giron / critique group, growing, Our Story, relationships
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I hope you are enjoying this series! Read the first installment here.   Anthony and I had just had our first date. And I felt rather discouraged.   It’s not that we hadn’t had a pleasant time—we had. He’d taken me to see the new movie Saving Mr. Banks, and I’d greatly enjoyed it. I […]

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First Dates, Saving Mr. Banks

Our Story: How I Didn’t Fall in Love at First Sight

April 5, 2017 / Kiersti Giron / growing, marriage, Our Story, relationships, singleness
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I didn’t fall in love at first sight with my husband.   In fact, when I first saw Anthony, I thought he was interested in someone else. Which he was, at the time.   And when we first went out, I was actually interested in someone else.   But I’m getting ahead of the story. […]

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love at first sight, marriage

One Year Ago…

March 15, 2017 / Kiersti Giron / family, God's faithfulness, marriage, relationships, weddings
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    One year ago, God began something new.   He took two broken people—with strengths and weaknesses, heartaches and foibles—and brought them together, bound into one by vows and exchanged rings beneath an arch of hydrangeas, surrounded by loving friends and family standing to support us, taking the bread and cup together beneath a […]

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anniversary, Weddings

Can You Have 28 First Kisses? Interview and Book Giveaway with Sandra Barnes!

February 16, 2017 / Kiersti Giron / books, community, giveaway, relationships, Sandra Barnes
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  I have a special treat for you this Valentine’s Day week: a delightfully romantic book giveaway!   If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you may have seen me mention my amazing friend, critique partner—and wonderful YA novelist—Sandra Barnes. Today I want to introduce her to you again, along with her newest […]

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28 First Kisses, Book Giveaway, Sandra Barnes, Valentine's Day

Of Change, Broken Bowls, and God’s Grace

August 23, 2016 / Kiersti Giron / faith, God's faithfulness, growing, marriage, relationships
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Change isn’t always easy. Or perhaps better to say—is change ever easy?   This past year has held incredible life changes for Anthony and me. Being engaged . . . getting married . . . moving . . . starting to teach high school (for me) . . . the sometimes wonderful, sometimes stressful task […]

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But Prince Charming Didn’t Act Like That! (And Neither did Cinderella): When Real Life Isn’t a Fairy Tale

August 1, 2015 / Kiersti Giron / Cinderella, growing, Once Upon a Time, relationships, story, weddings
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  The Prince bent, and slid the glass slipper gently onto Cinderella’s foot. It was a perfect fit. And as he stood and took her into his arms, she knew this was only the beginning of their happily ever after.   They were married, and it was so…except for a few things.   Like how […]

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Once Upon a Time: A Story and an Engagement

July 16, 2015 / Kiersti Giron / Cinderella, God's faithfulness, growing, Once Upon a Time, relationships, seasons, weddings
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    Once upon a time, there was a little girl who loved to play Cinderella. She would don her grandmother’s tattered patchwork skirt and go about with her broom, or dress up in her mother’s beribboned petticoat and bedjacket and run upstairs fleeing the “palace” and leaving her slipper behind for the prince—who might […]

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