This was no ordinary adoption.The phraseordinary adoption,in and of itself, is an oxymoron (what adoption is ordinary?) but this story our story really is a rare and precious miracle. The miracle did not lie just in receiving a new baby, although...
I saw Kung Fu Panda 2 with my family over the weekend. It was crazy and cute … I loved the emphasis on finding inner peace and its tie-in to self realization. Jeff and I have pretty much decided that if our children (now in their tweens...
These are my babies, 7 years ago this month…at the height of their innocent glory. In honor of Mothers Day and lessons learned frommychildrencontinuing to raise me, I have come up with Twelve Reasons to Learn at the Feet of Our...
This is an entry from an old blog of mine – a couple of years ago. It’s about my only girl, now 12. Sigh–I miss her at this sweet stage: Wed, April 1, 2009 My ten year old daughter, Savannah, has had difficulty staying in her...
This is going to be the year of healing my food issues. I feel it – I know it. It’s gonna happen. Yesterday Jeff and I took our son Noah to a chiropractic neurologist in Idaho. That dr. is convinced that most of Noah’s sensory...
Today she would be 40. I was going to visit her grave – about 15 minutes from my house – and got too busy. Or maybe I’m just avoiding. I don’t know… I do know that five and a half years after my sister’s suicide,...
Ok, so it’s been over a MONTH since I’ve posted. So sorry…have detached from writing to heed other calls. Pleasantly surprised to note that there were almost 500 reads on my last post, “Those Who Hunger.” 🙂 Please...
I’ll get to Part 2 of the FULL Potential in the real near future. I feel to go a different direction tonight. In my second-to-last post, entitled “How Could He Love Them as I Do?” I shared my very personal journey with my soon-to-be-14-year-old...
Thirteen – almost 14 – years ago, my entire existence did a complete 360. Since 1996, I have been consumed – yes consumed is the perfect word here – with feelings I didn’t know I possessed. Feelings that seemed...
