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He wasn’t quite three when we told him we were expecting twins. I still carried him on my hip into the daycare he attended twice a week; I hung his coat and put on his shoes and treated him like the baby he wasn’t until I found out the twins were coming. ...
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“Where we stumble and fall is where we find pure gold.” Carl Jung My husband and I were talking the other night about life and winter with four kids, about parents in transition and crisis, about waiting on pins and needles and credit-cards for our much...
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“The body is a sacrament . . . a visible sign of invisible grace . . . The body is the mirror where the secret world of the soul comes to expression.” – John O’Donohue in Anam Cara The weekend before Lent started, I noticed that I’d fallen into an old...
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I don’t think I’d ever read a single blog post before I started blogging, but since then, I’ve developed quite a list that I follow and read regularly. Every once in awhile I’d like to share some of my favorite posts with you. ...
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Year two with twins is the year of guerilla warfare, the year in which they form a tiny two-man militia bent on breeding destruction and disorder. My one-and-a-half year-old boys are climbers and their little army is forever advancing toward higher ground. ...