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bubba
The last time I had such a long silence around these parts was back in 2011 when I was newly pregnant with Zoe and pretty much spending my life on the couch or hanging over the toilet. This time I'm...
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for the mama awake tonight
It was somewhere around two in the morning, a day or so after we’d arrived back on board our floating home. The cabin thrummed as a container ship moved slowly past in the darkness, the hum of its...
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i'm making this up as i go along
For the first time in over a week, Zoe went to sleep tonight without crying for me to come back into her room and hold her for a little while. Ever since she was a tiny baby, she's been a dream at...
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five minute friday: visit
Linking up today with the crowd over at Lisa-Jo Baker's blog for Five Minute Friday where, as she puts it, Writing is like the old friend you can always count on to tell you the truth. Today's prompt:...
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five minute friday: hero
It's Friday, which means two things as far as I'm concerned: waffles in the cafe and Five Minute Friday over at Lisa-Jo Baker's corner of the internet. Today's prompt: Hero.Go. We stood in the hallway...
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standing together
On Friday afternoon I got the phone call that every nurse secretly dreads. Every nurse except me, it turns out, because when I heard my boss explaining that there had been an unusual number of sick...
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Linking up (almost too late!) for Five Minute Friday with Gypsy Mama, Lisa-Jo Baker, where it doesn't matter that I started writing this entry at a quarter to midnight, because that's still plenty of...
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Yesterday was one of those days where the toddler wakes up kind of early from her nap but the skies are grey and pregnant mama just doesn't have the energy to figure out how to entertain twenty-plus...
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strength for today
Today was the first day of spring, bringing with it all its promise of life after a long winter. Yesterday was the worst day of my life. I have no idea how to reconcile the two. Years ago, Phil and I...
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five minute friday: joy
It's Five Minute Friday, but I can't promise you I'll stop after just five. Because today's prompt is joy, and I have a feeling that's not a coincidence. ----- Just before we left the ship, back in...
View Articlei don't know how
Has it really only been four days? When I do the math, counting the time carefully on my fingers because I don't trust myself to get it right otherwise, that's what I come up with. I just don't...
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manna for each day
I don't want to leave you with those last thoughts for too long. The truth is, those truly desperate moments aren't the majority of what fills my heart these days. Not by far. But when I sat down last...
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five minute friday: mighty
Today's prompt: Mighty.Go. I have to wonder whether these words have been chosen in advance by a hand far more careful than Lisa-Jo even realizes. Joy last week, when it seemed the most impossible...
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plenty for today
Every time I come into the States for a while, my mum actives my ridiculously old cell phone and gets me a new number. (I am most likely the only person around still rocking a flip phone. I'm cool...
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I suppose that no news is good news around these parts in this season of waiting. It means we've just been laying low, getting adjusted to life here on land, doing all the things we don't get to do on...
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sunday always comes
I found out I was pregnant with Zoe during the season of Advent. Week by week we lit candles and celebrated hope and joy and peace and love, and every single time those small flames flickered to life,...
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the one with all the information
Where to begin? How to condense twelve hours of testing and ultrasounds and meetings and more information than I can possibly take in all at once? (This is an enormous wall of text, I know. Please...
View Articlea couple clarifications
So, the internet is awesome. We don't have final plans in terms of a car or a place to stay yet, but the response to my last post has been pretty incredible. So many of you have commented or emailed...
View Articlelight in the valley
I had a completely different entry all typed up and ready to publish, just waiting on the final word from the couple whose apartment we were going to stay in this summer. It was full of excitement...
View Articlemore than you can hope
Troops, you can stand down. Thank you all so much for everything you have done over the past couple of weeks, whether it's been offering up rooms in your houses, spreading the word to others, or...
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