My husband, Mat, and Abbey were a part of a wedding this weekend. Now I would never show wedding picutures before the bride and groom see the photographer’s photos. I just wouldn’t steal their thunder like that. It’s tacky, but here are a few candid, personal shots of my folks that are unrelated to the [...]
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Thursday, December 11, 2008
Mat and Santa’s new suit…..
Current mood: amused
Category: Life
Okay, I know that Diallo and I are Sci-fi nuts. It’s true. We like some pretty strange stuff. I admit it. I have often wondered if our outer space, mythology, magic, and monster fetish is warping our children’s fragile and moldable minds. Now I [...]
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Friday, November 28, 2008
Tiny Tim said it best
Category: Life
Every year to prepare for Christmas, the kids, Diallo and I always watch Henson’s Muppet’s Christmas Carol. I love the original Charles Dickens classic and I remember watching the theater production in college. I love the story. But the Muppet version is something as a family we [...]
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
For my autistic, down syndrome friend
Current mood: blessed
Emily, I wonder what goes through that pretty head
You look up at me and won’t say a word
Emily, big brown eyes and coal black hair
Just to feel my skin you take my hands in yours
Bang the table, hands flap, pages fly,
Watching you just freezes [...]
Filed under: kids, poetry, purpose, relating well on September 16th, 2008 | No Comments »
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Six Flags, growing, and letting go bit by bit….
Current mood: adventurous
Category: Life
We went to Six Flags over Texas yesterday as a grandparent’s gift to Mat and Abbey for their respective birthdays this month and next. -sigh- They have grown and changed so much this year and it was EXTREMELY apparent yesterday. Mat [...]
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Ken Gire records some dialogue from the courtroom scene from the 1994 movie “Nell” in the opening of his book, The Reflective Life: Becoming more Spiritually Sensitive to the Everyday Moments of Life. (In the translated version of Nell’s speech) Mr. Guire writes,
You have big [...]
Filed under: Christianity, Uncategorized, kids, life, relating well, relationships, wonder, writing on July 12th, 2008 | No Comments »
I know that for the moment I am a bit of writer poser. I don’t have anything to show for the effort at the moment other than a few cute blogs. But I have a dead line with my prof. set and I am scrambling like mad to get it done. I am thinking, working, [...]
Filed under: kids, life, relationships, writing on June 13th, 2008 | No Comments »
I have tried blogging this before and just couldn’t make the words come out right. They will probably be far from adequate this time as well, but I have to let my heart spill out a little and gush a bit because the overflow is to great to dam it up.
In my [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, kids, life, relationships on June 12th, 2008 | No Comments »
My children are already suffering from the “all good things must end” malady that I often grieve from. It’s amazing how we can as Thoreau said, “launch (ourselves) on every wave, find your eternity in each moment” if it comes to beginnings, but endings always leave us grieving and breathless. We see it coming. [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, kids, life, purpose, relating well, relationships on June 5th, 2008 | No Comments »
Today is Memorial Day. We remember those who have sacrificed and lost so much so that we can live with the freedoms we are given. It’s a very poignant and special remembering. Freedom is costly.
My children were talking with me earlier about “Memorial” and what that word means. I explained that it is [...]
Filed under: Christianity, kids, life, purpose, relating well, wonder on May 26th, 2008 | No Comments »
