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Gratitude Can’t Stay Silent
(if you receive this post in an email reader, please click over to my blog to view the video.) I sent my kids to school this morning. The older two, that is. The youngest has decided I make a great jungle gym as I try to peck out a few words before we start the…
Read MoreI Am Addicted to “New”
He’s surrounded by dozens of cars, at least half of which are from the movies “Cars” and “Cars 2.” Yet, at least once a day he asks me if we can go the store with toys. Whenever I round the kids up to run errands, he asks, “Are there toys there? Can I get a…
Read MoreHow the Other Half Lives (except it’s actually “The Other 95%”)
Do you ever wonder how the other half lives? I have, but I had no idea just how hard it was until I saw it two weeks ago in Bolivia. And then I discovered here that this isn’t the way half the world lives — it’s actually how 95% of the world lives. This is…
Read MoreSeeing Life Through Their Eyes
This week I’m trying to see and hear and experience the way my children do. As usual, with such a resolution comes resistance. My disgruntled self gets even more grumpy at having to set aside the to-do list, the writing, the daily motherly work. It chafes at the incessant responding to inane comments like “Mom?…
Read MoreThere’s Full and There’s TOO Full
The sky is a shade lighter than black as I slowly sit up in bed and feel around for the one button that will turn off the alarm. My bladder is full and I thank God for another month no baby presses on it. (Our youngest baby is sleeping in the room next door, about…
Read MoreWhen Fear and Heat Pile On
It’s a dry irritated cough, racking his little body until tears drip and stomach inverts. He pulls desperate at the straw, trying to wash the cough away with cold water. I hold him as I page through my mental book of mom-tricks for anything that might soothe. Cold air. Where to find cold air in…
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