(Pinterest is sucking away my day today.) As this is one of my favorite poems, one that was written on the wall in our kitchen for a large part of the summer, I had to move it to here...because it's pretty to look at and pretty to read. |
The family. We are a little band of characters trudging through life, sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that binds us all together.
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October, 2019 Nearly seven weeks ago, my dad died. Writing that seems as surreal as the actual experience. And yet, here I sit, fatherless...
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Yesterday, the kids wanted nothing but to lay with me. To cook with me. To talk to me. To be my "special helper." To sit next t...
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I found this in my drafts and have no idea why it wasn't posted back in May. It's sweet to read while I'm snuggling the little p...
So....I think I need to steal this. It's gorgeous. I have to set my timer on my phone so I don't spend all night on there. I get the guilt trip from Mike and it's not a pleasant fight after that. It's all about compromise, right?
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