Perfect, our lanky kitten with white paws and chin, welcomes me to the day. I carry her tucked under my arm and close to my chest and she rattles and shakes with a crackling purr as we descend the stairs together. I welcome the day with a large...
I watch the sunrise each morning. Reading, writing, I pause to turn toward the window. At first all is black, night’s heavy velvet stretched. With every glance the scene changes, like clicking through slides in a view finder. Fog shifts, blue...
I taught the twins to give “Eskimo kisses.” Levi leans in, all serious, and clasps my head in his hands, one on either side. Then he swipes his tiny nose side to side against my own. It is unbearably cute. Isaiah has become a prolific kisser,...
Walking up the hill from the garden, the twins run ahead because Daddy just got home from work. All week long my heart has carried a question, waiting for an answer that reaches beyond my own reason, something that fills the gaping hole inside of me. So,...
One of the twins was missing for a while the other day. Not alarmingly so, but gone for long enough that I thought to go and look for him. Striding around the garage, I saw him stretched tall on his tippy-toes at the corner of the back fence where the...
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