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On Raising Self-Aware Children

February 6, 2012

I can hardly believe he will be 10, my oldest. I’ve given birth to 5 babies in that decade, and somehow I still feel like a total newbie each morning. It’s been long enough between babies that my new wee-est one keeps me on my toes and each and every day my oldest is the [...]

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These Are The Days

January 17, 2012

I can’t gulp her in fast enough.
Mouth wide, I try.
Heart opened to hinge-breaking width, it’s still not enough.
Her lashes grow and each day I watch them. Time stands still for those moments.
Her eyes are almond shapes that turn up at the corners.
They beckon me to a guttural, ancient response of the swooned variety.
And still, [...]

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In These 2 Years

January 6, 2012

She died this day that year,
and on Sunday we will celebrate
the day she was born.
Again with the backwards of it all.
And it will always be backwards.
The finality of it still catches in my throat
like a lump of dirt that I still can’t swallow.
Brothers request a cake and a party and we will miss and cry
and [...]

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Go Learn. Go Discover.

December 1, 2011

You who are tiny and strong.
You who are brave.
Do you know how unique you are?
You are the generation that will never NOT know the internet.
That? Is special.
It means that since your birthed day,
you have had an epic amount of possibilities available to you.
You don’t know that making a Christmas list online is a new-ish delight.
You [...]

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How She Came To Be – River’s Birth Story

November 29, 2011

Friends, I have no idea where these days and weeks have gone. River turns 8 weeks old in a couple days and honestly? We cannot believe it. I haven’t blogged here mostly because I had no idea time was rushing past me (the other reason is because colic has ruled the house). Things are finally [...]

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River Promise

October 6, 2011

She kept us waiting didn’t she? Two weeks late, but right on time.
Welcome to the world!

River Promise

Born at home in the water at 6:30pm October 5, 2011
9lbs 2oz 21.5 inches
As you can see, she is a tiny girly wonder to her big brothers.
She brings with her missings of her sister Mabel,
but the Promise of redemption.
We [...]

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On Being Someone’s Person

September 23, 2011

There was this one time
they were playing
and they didn’t fight.
The end.
But seriously – I’ve never seen closer best buddies.
Third little brother is a part of this trio,
this band.
They aren’t always natural at play…
sometimes they struggle.
And play just looks like wrastlin’
until it looks like fightin’
and usually there’s bleedin’
And I wonder WHEN I will go a minute [...]

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Because He Is Nine

September 5, 2011

He is simply an enigma.
From the moment he was born, to his diagnosis at age 2
From his journeys through therapy
to his miraculous progress
and place of hope.
He is such mystery
a puzzle-gift I attempt to unwrap
more and more each day.
Each layer more precious
each layer revealing more mystery.
He continues to be my ocean.
My vast, deep, sometimes dark
always powerful
but sometimes quiet
beauty [...]

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Because He Is Seven

August 29, 2011

He is simply a wonderment.
A testament to children being born with a certain something.
A gift.
He speaks from a place somewhere else
in a way that intrigues everyone
and makes people laugh out of pure glee
of his unusual perspective.
He’s the one who will ask you
“in heaven, will our dreams become real?”
and if you spill something he will help [...]