I had a plan to greet the new year and our newest family member at the same time. I expected to see in the new year in a morphine haze with a new baby snuggling next to me. Plagued all night by nurses, in pain but blissfully happy. Staring into her...
This is becoming the theme of this pregnancy, of this Christmas season, of my life. This afternoon I had my pre-surgery testing appointment at the hospital. The nurse asked how I was feeling and I gave her an honest answer. No polite small talk here...
I’m just checking in because I hate how quiet this blog has become. I’ve had so many posts I’ve wanted to write; but life keeps conspiring against me. So many things I’ve wanted to do in recent weeks just haven’t...
CREDO: Professing the Creed for the Year of Faith LIGHT FROM LIGHT by Jamie Gladly I am hungry for light today. It’s been gray and dreary here in our corner of the Midwest, chilly and cloudy and grim. I’ve always craved...
CREDO: Professing the Creed for the Year of Faith GOD FROM GOD by Melanie Bettinelli Here I am stuck with this phrase I didn’t choose. No one chose it. Poor little orphan. No one chose it. I wonder why! And so I must step in and find the...
Nativity Scene by Bella. I don’t know if you can read the text at the bottom. She wrote it herself, her first invented spelling: NUTVDE SEN Advent Wreath On the first Sunday of Advent I totally forgot about the advent wreath until dinner was...
Crucifixion by Bella. The captions are her dictation to me. She also told me that all the red lines are blood. That was the first thing she said about this picture and she repeated it a couple of times. “In the face of horror … there is no other...
Sally Thomas has been a blog friend for some time. I always enjoy our conversations whether literary or homeschool-y. I’d maybe have bought her book even if I didn’t already admire her poetry. But Brief Light is the kind of book...
Lucia at 36 weeks. Taken this morning. And now for something less thoughtful than what I’ve been writing of late and far less beautiful than my gorgeous little daughter there with her hand up to her face. (Sorry for the blurry camera phone...
