#MotherStories: Becoming #hopelesshoper
I truly can’t remember when it was that I became a #hopelesshoper – the kind of hoper that cant help herself, hopelessly hoping even when...
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- May 20, 2020
- 1 min
#MotherStories: Still the Beginning
I’m struggling to write the next #motherstories installment. How do you talk about something that happened so long ago yet still feels so...
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- May 11, 2020
- 3 min
#MotherStories: On a Wedding Day
May I say something somewhat controversial about #mothering today? It’s a thought that goes back two decades to my wedding day, a story...
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- May 9, 2020
- 2 min
#MotherStories: Other People’s Kids
The fuzzy head of my #littlesweetpotatoboy was snuggled on my shoulder, breathing heavy, sound asleep. On the phone was one of my...
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- May 6, 2020
- 2 min
#MotherStories: Best Gift Ever
I wish I could find the picture, the one where I have this huge grin on my face, and there she is, a teeny red-faced baby crying at the...
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- May 5, 2020
- 2 min
#MotherStories: A Series for Mother’s Day
Hey You, Yes… you, all of you who feel a load of all sorts as May rolls around. You. Here you are, it’s #allthingsSpring and new life and...
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- Jul 19, 2018
- 2 min
Happy Sweet 16, Jamie-Noel
It’s hard to believe if you were here, we’d be doing things like getting you ready for your driver’s test, planning a huge birthday...
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- May 12, 2018
- 4 min
I See You: Reflecting on #MothersDay
Writer’s Note: This entry was first written in Spring 2007, It seems like a lifetime again, and yet, I read it through and know that even...
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- Nov 4, 2016
- 2 min
Oh the Homework, and a Lesson in Learning Differently
So Jax has to learn French. It’s required. And boy oh boy, is it a challenge. Here’s some thoughts on homework for the differently...
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- May 6, 2016
- 4 min
I See You, and celebrating Mother’s Day
I wrote this first in Spring 2007, trying to figure out how to really celebrate Mothers Day in the Church, a place which should feel...
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- May 5, 2016
- 2 min
Love Me Some Thursday
Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, Jesus said to them, “Come with me by...
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- Aug 14, 2012
- 1 min
Jax, Bocci Ball and Playing with God
At camp this last week, we were all walking down to the river for another afternoon of looking for minnows and skipping rocks. On the...
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- May 30, 2011
- 3 min
Sometimes All I Know To Do is…
hug him and cry. I don’t write much about the meltdowns we experience as a family, mostly because somedays it would be all meltdowns,...
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- May 30, 2011
- 1 min
For the Love of Kitties
Emme is the epitome of animal lovers. Every day, the request lingers in her mind and on her tongue, “Momma, when can we get a dog?” ...
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- Mar 17, 2011
- 4 min
My Son Has A Hidden Disability, and the Work of Giving Up Denying It
I decided I would just come write out and say it. I have spoken about the possibility but not much, and not for a really long time. My...
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- Jul 16, 2008
- 8 min
Still Positive After All These Years.
I’ve come a long way in making peace with the infertility that has affected my life for so many years. A long ways. I still don’t like it...
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- Dec 20, 2006
- 2 min
My Christmas Love
“This child should be here but her path went another way, to heaven instead of to earth.” I’m sitting here in the cold, hugging my babies...
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- Jun 29, 2006
- 5 min
Jax Sleeps
Yes… it is true. My Little Man is asleep. It would be just plain trivial, if it weren’t so amazing at least to me. He is a baby after...
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- Jul 19, 2005
- 3 min
Jamie-Noel
I have spent a good deal of the last several hours thinking about Jamie-Noel, who would be three today if she had lived longer than the...
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- Mar 13, 2005
- 4 min
Two Sides of Everything
We hold joy and sadness in the same hand, almost always I guess. #hopelesshoper Here I sit, typing and erasing, wondering how to talk...
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