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  1. Joanna Gaines _ The Magnolia Story

    lap?" Chip laughed. "That seems a little ironic to use on a , doesn't it?""Ha-ha," I replied. I was still not in the mood for his jokes, but this is how Chip backs me off the ledge--with his humor.
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  2. Joanna Gaines _ The Magnolia Story

    One thing I learned there on that beautiful front porch was if I wanted to be successful, if I wanted to do important work one day, I would have to increase my capacity. I had to learn to manage disappointment. I needed to learn how to make the most out of those "opportunities" Chip seemed to keep finding.
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  3. Joanna Gaines _ The Magnolia Story

    I always thought that the "thriving" would come when everything was perfect, and what I learned is that it's actually down in the mess that things get good. It was such a blessing to find myself thriving in the middle of the pain. Unless you find a way to do that, there's always going to be this fake illusion that once you get there-wherever "there" is for you-you'll be happy. But that's just not life. If you can't find happiness in the ugliness, you're not going to find it in the beauty, either.
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  4. Joanna Gaines _ The Magnolia Story

    So from the age of five to about twenty, religion to me was a matter of 'you do this, and you don't do that, and you do your best to walk the straight line.
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  5. Joanna Gaines _ The Magnolia Story

    Life isn't found on the pages of a magazine. Life is found in the glass of spilled milk and in the long, narrow hallway filled with socks and soccer balls.
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  6. Joanna Gaines _ The Magnolia Story

    That rotten houseboat turned out to be a blessing in disguise.
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  7. Joanna Gaines _ The Magnolia Story

    You bloomed?I did. If I hadn't married Chip, I might not have ever bloomed.
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  8. Joanna Gaines _ The Magnolia Story

    Between building the new house on our newly subdivided lot, continuing work on some small flip homes, and managing the rentals, Chip had more work than he could do himself, so he had put a crew of workmen together. "The Boys," as we called them, were a talented bunch of hardworking guys who were just as adaptable as Chip seemed to be when it came to making my crazy ideas become reality. I truly could say, "Hey, why don't we take that tree out of the front yard and hang it upside down in the master bedroom," and they would do it, no questions asked. {All right, maybe there'd be a little head scratching. But then they'd shrug their shoulders and get to work.}
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  9. Joanna Gaines _ The Magnolia Story

    By the time Chip and I met, he'd managed to combine these two conflicting sides of himself: the kid who steered clear of trouble and did the right thing, and the kid who rode his Big Wheel full speed into the street without looking both ways. I had never met anyone like him. It's funny to me to think that the whole opposites-attract thing might have been programmed into my DNA. Just as my outgoing mother was drawn to my quiet dad, I was this shy girl drawn to the super-outgoing Chip Gaines. And the fact that he owned a successful lawn and irrigation business and had made up his mind that he loved Waco and wanted to stay put was somehow a perfect fit with everything I knew I wanted myself.
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  10. Joanna Gaines _ The Magnolia Story

    I have to choose to thrive, even in the pain. Even when it's tough. ... We can do this. God has not brought us this far to let us down now.
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  11. Joanna Gaines _ The Magnolia Story

    We didn't know what made "great TV." We were just trying to make a living and trying hard to honor the craft we had both fallen in love with over the years."
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  12. Joanna Gaines _ The Magnolia Story

    Chip had been in there for a few very long hours. I had all kinds of awful thoughts about what might have happened to him in there. What if he'd been roughed up? Strip-searched? Who knows what awful things could have happened in a place like that? I saw scary-looking characters come and go as I sat in that cold, concrete lobby, trying to make myself invisible.Finally, out came Chip."Hi, baby. Thanks for bailing me out," he said.He sounded almost chipper."Are you okay?""Yeah, yeah! You'll never guess who I saw in there. Alfonzo! Remember the lawn guy who used to work for me? We had a good time catching up."Only Chip could go to prison and come out talking about all the friends he'd run into there.I came out and I was like, "Whoa! That was awesome. Jo, I met this guy. He did this thing. You know this old guy that I used to tell you about--he and I used to work together? He's doing great. Well, he's in jail, but things are really good otherwise."Two of the policemen were also buddies of mine. These guys were literally standing on the other side of these bars going, "Why are you here? What's the deal?" We had this endearing conversation right there, while I was in a jail cell.I used to live out in the boonies when I was in college, and I had mowed this one guy's grass. So I told him what I was in for. "Long story short, I got these dogs running around." And he was like, "Oh, dude, you'll be fine. I'm sure they'll get you right out of here."It was just another day in my new life with Chip Gaines.
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