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Category Archives: My Little Ones

Supermoon

Daughter, The moon travelled close to meet your arrival. It loomed larger in the sky than any time in the past eightyView full post »

Guest Posting – Navigating Grief as Life Moves Forward

The wound remains. Time has passed, is passing still, and I hold our long, awaited baby. The pain of the full-termView full post »

Finally Home

She feels so light in my arms. What if I cannot hold on to her? We buckle her into the carseat that is supposedView full post »

First Days

These first days after birth melt one into another, a beautiful fog. She was born at 12:38pm. Tonight I don’t haveView full post »

The Future…

The only place I marched today was to the grocery store and back home for my son’s thirteenth birthday party. But IView full post »

Worth it

For six years I have wondered if it’s cruel to put them through it all over again. When we began talkingView full post »

Joy – a birth story

This time my breath is calm and my hair brushed. I could have turned and walked back out, this is no middle ofView full post »

Always

“Then, suddenly again, Christopher Robin, who was still looking at the world, with his chin in his hand, called outView full post »

Seven Years Missing Him

It’s been seven years, and this time I’m not surprised, by the anniversary, by the march of time. LosingView full post »

After the Rain

In California every day is the same. Blue. Sunny. When we moved here I was glad for that. I was so tired ofView full post »

Joy Rising

Sometimes I wake up and feel the stillness, I wonder if I’m empty again. I wait, trying just to breath whenView full post »

Watermen

Every year they do Junior Lifeguard camp. Every year they become the next level of watermen. So proud of themView full post »

Knight in Shining Armor

“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.” ― Dr. Seuss Thankful that he keeps me a child. ForView full post »

Like Jazz

“The goofy thing about the Christian faith is that you believe it and don’t believe it at the sameView full post »

Year’s Beginning

Every year we begin with a climb. Right up the hill and back. We’re joined by crowds making the pilgrimageView full post »

Champions

My boys all dressed up, running around in the golden hour. You can head over to Childhood Unplugged for moreView full post »

Simple Moments

It’s that time again. Another new month, another chance to take stock of how we are living the majority ofView full post »

Childhood Unplugged

My kids don’t have everything, but what they do have is made of dirt and sunshine, the moon, stars, oceanView full post »

the tribe

Shortly after we moved here, happy to be back in California but uprooted once again due to my husband serving inView full post »

Neverland

“Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John’s, for instance had a lagoon with flamingos flyingView full post »

bunkbeds + books

They are my heart, my very being. They complain, argue and make messes. They create what I never could imagineView full post »

Artist’s Statement

We drove across the country and I shot a roll of film, and the photos were all a mess. Light leaks or maybe myView full post »

Skating

Last December we went back to Indiana for Christmas. These are a few film shots from the kids’ first ice skatingView full post »

cut back to barely nothing

Before a year had passed, we moved from the house you died in . Or maybe you died while I stood in the streetView full post »