Sometimes Walmart is as good a place as any for a love story

Thumbnail image for Sometimes Walmart is as good a place as any for a love story January 30, 2012

It’s a Walmart love story. Unlikely and wonderful. She has that pink ribbon just barely clinging to her few whispy baby hairs and still smells of the parmesan chicken she smeared all over the place during lunch. Baggers and shoppers, grandmas and tired looking dads all smile at her. She gums back at them, flashing [...]

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Five Minute Friday: Tender

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Around here we write for five minutes flat on Fridays. We write because we want to, not because we have to. We write for fun, for joy, for discovery. We just write without worrying if it’s just write or not. Won’t you join us? 1. Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over [...]

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And then after 18 years I rediscovered my mom

January 9, 2012

Eighteen years isn’t enough. Not by a long shot. Because she won’t remember. She won’t remember the first one when I rocked her through every night and ached from the tired and how much my heart wanted to eat her whole.  She won’t feel the knitted blanket I wrapped around her and the giraffe lovie [...]

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The Raggedy Ann love

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She keeps me up. Again and again and my eyes stop focusing properly. All I want is sleep. And I whisper to her in frustration, “It’s a good thing I love you so much.” I love you at 4am when everyone’s asleep but us. I love you when you projectile vomit all over me in [...]

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What it looks like to unwrap life

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I’ve known you for six months now, but feel like I’ve been your friend forever. That’s one of the things that’s surprised me – how much I just flat out enjoy your company. How you laugh at everything and nothing. That little sigh you give when the gurgles die down. The eyes that watch me [...]

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The miraculous nonsense of how a mother loves

September 14, 2011

Some days I find I love her so hard it actually hurts in my flesh and blood heart; not just in that metaphorical spot where mothers supposedly store their emotions. It hurts and I feel it in all four chambers even if the heart beats on oblivious. I love her in the dark wee hours [...]

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What women {in real life} can do for your soul

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When peace, like a river, attendeth my way, When sorrows like sea billows roll; Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say, It is well, it is well, with my soul. ~Horatio G. Spafford My mom chose that hymn for her funeral. It was her prayer for those of us left behind. And as [...]

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Because parents have to be brave first

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One of my favorite things is learning from other moms. I can sit for hours soaking in their war stories and encouragement. Yesterday Christie shared about how to survive some of motherhood’s worst storms. Today, as Jackson and I gear up for our first year of Kindergarten, I went knocking on my friend Amanda’s door [...]

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A word on weathering the storms of motherhood

Thumbnail image for A word on weathering the storms of motherhood August 23, 2011

My friend Christie has known me since before I had kids. I now have three. And she’s one of the few people with whom I can share my hard, ugly days of motherhood and always find help, empathy, encouragement. I asked if she’d share about weathering some of those storms that can rock any mother. [...]

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In God’s Heart I am: Beautiful

August 18, 2011

……….The unbelievable has happened. I actually recorded a video blog. {The word “vlog” gives me the heebie-jeebies}. This is a big first for me. And only because my friend Holley asked. And only because it was on the topic we all have been discussing the last couple of weeks – beauty. Hop on over here [...]

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