Category: The Library
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Brag On Him
In February, I wrote a post about my Brian, and today it’s being featured on the Blissfully Domestic blog. Malia has a weekly column called Brag on Him (Don’t Nag on Him). I’m there today… and I’m bowled over by what was happening in our life just 8 months ago. Not only is it a…
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Childlike Faith
It is the same each night that I go in to check on her. Tossing in her restlessness, she has turned herself upside-down, on top of quilted covers, feet dangling over the bed’s edge. I lift her in my arms and place her gently back on her pillow pulling her blankets around her. It is…
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Nightly Routines
After a long day, the cuddling and rocking of bedtime routines are cathartic. Inhaling deeply, I smell Dove soap and baby lotion as Bella climbs on my lap in the chair by her window. “We can’t forget to rock, Mommy,” she whispers. I pull her close, her Digger Dog held tightly. I lean my face…
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God Sightings
There are different types of hardship. The hardship of broken relationship is different than the hardship of learning how to live in a new marriage. The hardship of pregnancy and childbirth are different than the hardship involved in learning parenthood. The hardship of lupus is different than the hardship of cancer. The hardship of treatment…
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The Beautiful Torn
While coloring with Bella this weekend, she kept trying to tear her own pages out of her coloring book, each one resulting in a jagged tear through the middle. Finally, one came out easily and she colored to her heart’s content. Finding a speck of paper sticking up in the middle of it, she tried…
A Spring of Joy 