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Parenting

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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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 [...]

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When Mother’s Day Is Hard

May 6, 2011

Sometimes hope feels like a feather floating in the air,
you touch it gently,
with such a tiny grasp,
you don’t want it to disappear into the universe.
Sometimes that is what this Mother’s Day feels like for me.
I’m writing about Mother’s Day being hard
at Lifetime Moms today…come visit?
My sweet friend Lisa-Jo is writing about being a motherless daughter [...]

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Remember When

August 1, 2010

You won’t remember living anywhere but here.
You won’t remember being born in a living room in Indiana.
You won’t remember Chicago.
But you, and your outie, will remember the South.
The beaches that call to us more days than not.
Learning to worship in our humble little church.

The peace that hangs on us, the humidity that hangs more.

School starts [...]

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The Path

July 28, 2010

I’m your mama, it’s my job.
And your daddy’s.
To teach you about the things with weight, and grace and love.
To show you how to be peculiar.
To point to the Light so you will turn towards it.
On your own.
Look, little one.
There’s the path.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital [...]

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New Beginnings

April 23, 2010

We are very selective about the activities we have the boys involved in, because not just any sport will work. Team sports are pretty challenging right now, and if we don’t do those, what else is left? There are only so many bears to intimidate in the forest. Actually there’s none. So you see our [...]

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Thankful For Recovery

August 24, 2009

I’m now on Day 8 of the Gratitude Challenge from Tiny Prints, but yesterday got to open mysterious Gift #2 and was excited to find a branded Flip phone gifted to me from Tiny Prints.

Isn’t it cute? They challenged us to vlog our gratitude, so I put together something that I think really expresses this [...]

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Incensed

June 18, 2009

Image by .m for matthijs via Flickr

Have you ever watched incense burn? It seems to smoke from more than one place, two streams in a constant rhythm that reminds me of an endlessly flowing creek. It’s beyond beautiful, and I couldn’t believe this unspoken lovliness had gone unnoticed by me for my whole life [...]