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Several months ago I had a gruesome dream in the middle of the night.  In it, Satan and his minions were torturing and mutilating women and children and I was forced to watch in horror.  In my dream, I remember sobbing and begging them to stop. I was awakened from my dream by my baby […]

Dear Walmart Man, Your timing was impeccable, it really was.  It was a hot July afternoon and I had just exited our neighborhood Walmart with my newborn baby and 4 small children in tow.  It was well over 100 degrees and the heat radiating from the parking lot, and the stiff wind that had just […]

Tenth place out of eleven. He was devastated. I could barely get him to even look at me. He had worked so hard on his pinewood derby car, designing it, sanding it, painting it, and carefully putting on what he was sure would be winning numbers. I don’t remember him ever working so hard on […]

I’ve been dragging my feet in writing this blog post.  I think it’s because I knew it would take me several hours to get my thoughts written out, and it has.  I feel so grateful and blessed to have been able to travel to Ghana.  It was a life-changing experience. Everyone should travel to Africa […]

I’m not sure when it happened, but somewhere along the awkward line of bonding and attachment, it did. I looked at this child, who just months ago was a complete stranger and realized I couldn’t imagine life without her. I’m not sure how it is for other adoptive families, but for me, creating a familial […]

Dear kids, There are a few times in life when you’ll always remember where you were and what you were doing when you heard the news. I was sitting in a parking lot at Les Schwab’s, waiting for the tire on our van to be fixed when I read about the Supreme Court decision to […]

There’s something whispered quietly about among few mothers, spoken with hushed voices in private conversations. Heads hanging in shame, feeling broken by the impossibility of it. I struggled with it for two years feeling guilt and failure any time I said the words outloud. But now as I look back, I see the wonder of […]

“So, where else do you work?” I get this question almost daily since I’ve gone back to work.  I work once per week at a long-term care facility and it feels good to be back in the nursing field. “I work at home.  I’m a stay-at-home mom.” Ironically it’s the women who usually wrinkle their […]