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Those sunny San Diego days…
How looking backwards in Motherhood evokes both grief and gratitude. I was sitting with my youngest on the couch this afternoon after dropping her older sisters at the dance studio. She wanted to watch PBS Kids since she rarely has control of the remote and is able to chose what to watch (thanks, 12 year…
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Autumn in NY, written in AZ
There were these mornings in New York, in that little house in the woods, when I would play autumn jazz on cool mornings when the leaves were changing colors. It felt so “old world” and charming and lovely and felt SO New York. I could imagine the city and how close it was to us,…
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Settling Into Motherhood
Motherhood wasn’t a choice for me. It accidentally fell into my lap. And while I am THANKFUL for that as I do not believe I would have ever woken up one day and made a choice to become pregnant, it wasn’t something I was all that prepared for, or knew how to navigate. The thing…
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l o v e
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living…
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Some news to share…
So, this is happening. Oops, we did it again. Ha! When we excitedly told some family members a while back that we were expecting a third baby, one of them said, “oh, and are we happy about this?’ I wasn’t quite sure how to answer that….what kind of question is that? YES OF COURSE WE…
whiskey wine & sunshine 