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All In
It was a gorgeous night for football practice. I curled up cross legged on my blanket and looked at the crescent moon just beginning to show its face. Crickets chirped and the chatter of parents surrounding me was a soothing sound. Across the field, one of the players on Bear’s team sat by himself while…
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The Pulled Rug
It has happened again. The rug. Pulled out from under our feet and we are upended. Reeling. Sad. Clinging. I saw the doctor to finally get answers about the kidney stone, aptly named Stanley by a friend of ours. The good news, Stanley is gone. No. more. stone! However… they see more on the ultrasound…
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Midnight Cancer
Midnight Cancer is a bottomless pit where voices echo around and around endlessly repeating the same prayer: oh God… Sooner or later, midnight cancer changes to morning cancer, brighter, more hopeful. Somewhere in the sun rises warm and round. Birds are singing. After a while, morning cancer melts into afternoon cancer where it hides among…
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Protection
A repost from years ago, because I need the daily reminder that He is with us: The children love to climb the ladder to our attic and explore. I needed a few things so I asked for their help, happy to incude them in our daily tasks. The boys were up top grabbing the items…
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This Beautiful Ache
It’s days like these that make me ache. I ache with the sweetness of a simple day, curled up with my Brian for the morning together, tinkering around the house and running errands “just us” before the children come home. It makes me realize how much I am looking forward to his retirement and us…
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A Spring of Joy 