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  It doesn’t have to be that way

  12.09.09 | Permalink | 32 Comments

  Today’s Motherlode blog is fairly appalling to me. It’s a guest post by a lady who has been happily married for six years, mother to a 2-year old and a baby. Her family’s “dirty secret” is that her husband has an illegitimate 10 year-old son from a previous relationship. The father pays child support, but [...]

• Family

  Blood will tell

  11.01.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Last night I had a call from my brother. He sounded the same as always: cheerful, a bit abrupt, but then we are a family of abruptness and tersity on the phone. Several months ago my dad copied my cell phone message, so that if you call him you’ll hear him state his name and [...]

• Family

  Love of my life

  09.28.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Sometimes I would like to think that I have Tourette’s Syndrome, because the things that come out of my mouth when I am tired or hungry or cranky are shocking, or would be, if my poor family were not already inured to the sound of the f-word exploding from my lips. If I felt I [...]

• Family

  and I have had plenty of bright sunshine over the years

  06.15.09 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  My mother-in-law is having cataract surgery tomorrow, and she has kept me informed about the procedure and plans. Since we moved to Utah almost two years ago, we haven’t been able to see Dick’s mom and sister and our nieces, and I miss them. (And my brother-in-law and nephew. Grampa we have seen, and wasn’t [...]

• Family

  Biker Babes

  04.26.09 | Permalink | 12 Comments

  This week is Susan’s special week at preschool, which means I am scrambling to create a poster “highlighting her family and favorite things to do.” It also means that on Wednesday I will remember to make peanut butter balls (edible playdough) approximately three minutes before we’re supposed to leave to take her to school. It [...]

• Family, Spot, church

  Hey Mommy, that’s a white boy!

  04.23.09 | Permalink | 13 Comments

  At church this week I ended up on the hemmed in side of the pew. This usually happens to me, even though I remember I hate the inexorable tide of three children and a loving husband pressing me into the corner where the pew meets the wall, because I am usually the first to walk [...]

• Family

  Start all the clocks

  04.11.09 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  Start all the clocks, get on your Sunday best
  Let the dogs bark, let them wake us from our rest
  Strike up the organ, the choir shout Hurray!
  For He is risen, and is not where He lay.
  Pink-gloved daughters, sons in pastel ties
  Full of sugar, sticky fingers, high happy cries
  Scribble with crayons the message of joy:
  We are rescued [...]

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