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Wound Care

February 12, 2010
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Strong emotions of any kind seem to spurn from the same place.  Passion.  That passion I felt with “my people”, also brought up my passion for missing Mabel.  I tried to ride those waves as best I could, but at times the waves seemed unbearable.  I worked to be real with myself [...]

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Mabel

January 9, 2010
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My sweet baby Mabel Love was born a stillborn, January 8, 2010.
She was more beautiful than I could have imagined, and I miss her so very much.  I miss her in my womb, and in my arms.
Over the past few days my belly has been silent, today it is empty.
I can’t possibly express to you [...]

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Like a Dim Mirror

January 5, 2010
dim mirror

Yesterday I took this picture out my living room window.  At first I thought the sun was pretty, but the more I looked I identified with it.
The finger prints, the smudges, like looking in a dim mirror of myself.  Bright spots, but things askew, strewn about.  Foggy, messy, broken fence being propped up, barely standing.  [...]

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Christmas Tour of Homes 2009

December 13, 2009
Christmas Angel

This is my first year in the Christmas Tour of Homes, being in a new Southern home and having all new corners and lovely places to put our beloved decorations was too fun to not share!
First, my lovely tree topping angel, that this year gets her own spot next to the fireplace so I can [...]

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Giving Thanks

December 2, 2009

I don’t have many photos from our Thanksgiving, and I don’t have many stories to share from last weekend (I’ll tell you why soon), but I do have these.
Photos from our first Thanksgiving in the South.  This is how Charleston does it.

Namaste.

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Road Tripping (And a Giveaway!)

November 12, 2009
Road Trip

Our road trip from Chicago-land to Charleston was the first real road trip we’ve ever done with the boys.  No easing into it, we had 900 miles, 2 cars and 2 moving trucks (and a dog) packed up and on the road to the South.  It was quite the carni caravan.

I prepared individual baskets for [...]

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Just Go

November 10, 2009
NO.

The days, while full of beauty, are also full of hard edges and anxiety.  I feel so very “less than” right now, not enough time or energy or whatever, to help these kids get off their slippery slope.
I expected regression, kids on the autism spectrum almost always go through it when there’s change.
And oh has [...]

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We Are Here

November 9, 2009
Low Country Living

Not even a week in our new home in Charleston, South Carolina, and we are feeling the peace and slowness that comes with being happy.  Loving the low country with all our being.  Sinking into what it feels like to be here.  Be these people, the people we’re turning into by creating a life here.

One [...]

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