I showed Big Boy and Little Girl a little about using my camera this morning. Here are some photos they took, with a little photo editing by me. I’m really impressed! Big Boy loves angles. This one of Little Boy is going on the wall! Little Girl got this one of Big Boy. I played…

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The whole yard is contained! The dog loves the freedom of being off-tether, and I love the freedom to just send the kids out to play. Scott, with the help of a neighbor, hung the two gates Thursday evening. We had them custom made and they turned out WAY better than if we’d tried to…

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I lost my camera (actually, I think it was stolen, but who knows?), and took advantage of the opportunity to upgrade to a digital SLR camera with a manual lens. I’m delighted with the close-ups it takes. Here’s a good example, our first tomato. Little Girl with the pug we’ve been caring for this spring.…

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This is a much better photo taken this morning with a real camera (not my camera phone). Elli’s photo is digitally-etched into the granite. It’s impossible to describe how it feels to see her beautiful smile there. (Click the photo to view it full-size.) (Her last name is on the stone, but to protect our…

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It reads: “In you, God did something very big with someone very small. Though you could not speak, you knew how to laugh. Your wheelchair is so sadly empty, yet so gloriously empty. We will see you again soon.”

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The first truly distinct feeling I had when Elli died, apart from the pain of being cut off from her, was guilt. Is guilt. For guilt has leeched onto me and threatens to suck my life out. Elli died in our care, in our home. Caring for her was our responsibility that day –we had…

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