Nothing can really prepare you to get a phone call from the geneticist telling you that your child has a really rare syndrome that will change her life, and that of your entire family forever…even if you and your husband already knew it in your hearts.
Posts in the "Posts" category:
Eye of the Beholder
Sometimes my kids are angels and sometimes they are not (I could use a more descriptive word here, but I am trying to think happy thoughts). Lately I have been thinking about my perception of people, places, things and situations. I realized I am the beholder and I see what I most want to see. […]
Sweating the Big Stuff
I’m coming up on a one year anniversary. One year since I made a HUGE leap of faith and moved to a new state. The move came on the heels of a life-changing event: divorce. Looking back on it now, I wonder sometimes where I found the courage to do it. I also wonder if I was slightly–well–CRAZY at […]
The Priceless Spatula
“I just spent twenty dollars on a spatula,” I said. My polite and ever-supportive husband simply responded, “Dumb.” “But,” I continued, “The money was well worth it, because I am committing now to never again go to a party like that out of obligation.”
The Misplaced Math Books
In her defense, my lovely 9-year-old daughter, Sarah, is one of the most loving people to ever have walked the earth. Her style of losing her patience is to tenderly whine and bat her long eyelashes and stare pitifully up at me with her giant, puppy dog eyes. It is nearly impossible to be upset […]
Messy Memories
I have been touched by a story of a young mother with four kids, almost the ages of mine, who was in a plane crash and has been in critical condition for several months with over 80% of her body burned. She had been keeping a blog for several years and had quite a following […]
My Daughters’ Room
My twin daughters’ bedroom is one of my favorite places in the house. It is partly because it is decorated in pink and green and feels like the perfect room for the little girl in me. Mostly it is because we have filled it with things given to us by people we love and people […]
Special Perfume for Graduation
Each of my children were ready. In just a minute their grandfather would be picking the kids and I up for my husband’s graduation ceremony. I looked up at the clock and smiled. Never had I gotten the three children together so efficiently. Wow, I inhaled triumphantly, I really had things together this time…but wait, where had my second child gone off to? The house […]
The Evolution of Enthusiasm for Doing the Dishes
Image from Shawni Pothier Listening to Grace teach Claire to do the dishes the other night made me smile. After they got all the dishes crammed in there, detergent loaded in and door closed, Grace wrapped her arm around her sister and pointed out that although there are a lot of buttons on […]
Choices
Every day we are all faced with multiple choices. These choices may be small, but they do have the potential to have a large impact upon our lives. Some choices may not be that important, while others are monumental. I thought once I had made the choice to be a stay-at-home mother, the decision […]
Want Peace? Get Laryngitis
The kids have been sick: tonsillitis for some, just a cold for others. As a tribute to how much they love me, the kids passed on their illnesses to me. (Ah, the sweet gifts of motherhood!) I’m coming to the tail end of it now, but I have no voice. And the best part […]
Looking Back
How grateful I am to be a mother and a grandmother. Because of all that is required of a mother, I feel that I have walked, and continue to often walk, through the “refiners” fire.There have been those late nights attempting to get a new baby back to sleep and late nights waiting up […]