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Family

On Being Someone’s Person

September 23, 2011
gogoplay

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
charliecollage9

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
jamiecollageage7

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 [...]

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Freeze Time (Small Style)

August 12, 2011
happykids2

i sat and perused the pictures of our family today
and it hit me.
the knowing that things won’t always be so special
and they won’t be so tiny.
i know it in my bones and yet
i forget.
maybe on purpose.
these 5, all cousins, will grow to 8 by the end of the year.
one day they (and any other babies [...]

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On Holiday

July 7, 2011
IMG_2812

I have this post in my drafts that says nothing but
“when I was a young warthog”
I can’t remember why I wrote that or where I was going with it…
and every time I look at it I am surprised again.
It’s kindof like when you go on a trip and think you will have all this relaxing [...]

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The Way Of The Wind

June 1, 2011
photo (12)

We took last month to move…thankfully not cross-country like the last two moves,
but packing everything and starting over somewhere new, just the same.
We have a tiny abode now that has just enough vintage to make my heart sing.
There’s nothing like chevron patterns and heirloom quilts to keep me feeling inspired.

The kids are all still completely [...]

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On Christmas Strides

December 28, 2010
threebabes2

There was this one time I started a crafty indie product feature style life inspiration site – right before Thanksgiving.
And the healing in making things for that site, in researching and living in that site?
Made me soar.
I’ve neglected my writing here because, well.
I am avoiding you.
*
Approaching the holidays was interesting for me…I had the love [...]

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Something Happened

November 30, 2010

I’ve been away. It’s been a day. Or a year.
I might have lost count.
But here’s why…

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You Need To Know

October 1, 2010
jonah

As October quietly pushes its way into my heart, I wonder where 2010 has gone.
Have I told you that I have no memory of things before the end of June?  It’s true.  I don’t.
{And I can’t even remember who I’ve told…}
I’m starting to feel like the sweet elderly old woman who keeps repeating stories she’s already [...]

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