Life with Bear didn't prepare me for an adventuresome [read: crazy] toddler like Bug. We went on a hike the other day while Bear was at therapy. He left the trail quickly and tramped through the woods when he heard the sound of running water. He scrambled down an embankment taller than him and found rocks as big as his head to throw into the water. I watched as he became bolder and bolder- and … [Read more...]
If you haven't read the introduction to this series, please read it here. ********** As I sit in a local coffee shop waiting for my dear husband and talented barista to close up for the night and take me home (where a horse of a dog and piles of laundry patiently await my attention), I must confess: I have an ulterior motive in writing my first of four entries this month. My goal – as … [Read more...]
Love..... such a word in our culture. Often it is just that, a word. In the same breath that we say we have the deepest and most adoring love for someone we also so passionately proclaim the love we have for the new Taco Bell Doritos taco. We are not only a culture that doesn't understand true love but we don't even have the words in our language to begin to understand it. While you … [Read more...]
This morning it's thundering far away outside- dark stormy clouds and I feel the blood under my skin quicken. I feel awakened, beautiful and alive. The weather is as wild as my second boy and they compliment each other in an almost competition. It's summer warm and I ponder on it all. I open the front door, welcoming in the whispering change on the horizon. Hints as raindrops hesitatingly fall … [Read more...]
