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Letters to Jenna #5

Posted in Adoption, Letters to Jenna, Mommyhood & Kindergarten Logic on July 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »

So many of our family and friends are excited and can’t wait to meet you. We have people at church praying for you, some who don’t even know us yet. Some even want to buy you welcome gifts, and have asked if we know your size…

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Letters to Jenna #4

Posted in Adoption, Letters to Jenna on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Jenna,
Only three more classes to go! The weeks don’t seem to count down quickly enough, though we are learning alot. We had your brother’s birthday party this past weekend. We wish you could have been here to share it with us. We all got to be rock stars and decorated t-shirts. We tried to make a [...]

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Letters to Jenna #3

Posted in Adoption, Letters to Jenna on May 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Jenna,
This weekend, I’m going to work on putting together a picture book for you. The boys are going to write notes, and make flowers for you.
Last night in class, we discussed grief and loss. As I put myself in your shoes, my heart just broke for you. What you may have been through. How many [...]

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Wrestling Heart

Posted in Adoption, Tender Mercies, tagged , , , , , on May 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »

…I was up most of the night, praying, wrestling with feelings, naming them, imagining how I might work through various possibilities, preparing my case…

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Delicate Questions

Posted in Mommyhood & Kindergarten Logic, tagged , on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Last night my almost-seven-year-old asked one of those toughies. As we were getting ready for bed, he was going potty, and called me in to ask a question.
What are these two balls in here for again?
“God made those to help make babies when you grow up and get married,” I responded.
He had a bit of a puzzled [...]

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gonna be a mommy again?

Posted in Mommyhood & Kindergarten Logic, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 21, 2009 | 5 Comments »

I was so upset, saying “you can’t do that to people”. I woke up amazed at how attached I already felt to a little girl whose picture I’ve only seen…

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Toddler Christmas Popcorn Explosion

Posted in Mommyhood & Kindergarten Logic, Random Thoughts, tagged , , , , , , , on December 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »

It was toddler popcorn explosion all over the stage.

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Boy Are We In Trouble

Posted in Mommyhood & Kindergarten Logic, tagged , , , , , , on November 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »

My six-year-old has his first broken heart.
A friend of mine has a little girl just a few months younger than my son. We have always joked about having them betrothed since they were in the womb.
Well, they were in the same pre-school and kindergarten classes, and had decided that they were going to get married [...]

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Lighten Up

Posted in Mommyhood & Kindergarten Logic, tagged , , , , , , , on July 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Time to lighten things up a bit…
What do you get when you combine party balloons, a ceiling fan, and a two-year-old who can now reach the lightswitches?

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Morning Time Savers

Posted in Mommyhood & Kindergarten Logic, Random Thoughts, tagged , , , , on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

With two kids, one of them being a two-year-old, most mornings, we get caught in the vortex I’m convinced exists between the bottom stair and the garage door. No matter how much time I think we have when we come downstairs “ready” to go, we always seem to end up rushing out the door. Someone [...]

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