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Ready. Nesting. | Glowbug Girl
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Random thoughts of a children's writer/college instructor/mama (and not necessarily in that order). Laquo; Blog CPR. August 13, 2012 by glowbuggirl. The moses basket, ready and waiting for a new little body. So, today’s my due date. There aren’t many times in one’s life that when someone asks you “when’s your due date? The co-sleeper is set up and ready next to the bed…. The dresser drawer is full of baby girl-type clothes…. The soon-to-be big brother keeps himself occupied with puppet shows…. Love the p...
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My Christmas Wish Come True… | Glowbug Girl
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Random thoughts of a children's writer/college instructor/mama (and not necessarily in that order). Laquo; Geeking Out on Christmas. My Christmas Wish Come True…. December 7, 2011 by glowbuggirl. Ever since I’ve lived in an apartment (more than ten years now), I’ve always wanted a real Christmas tree, but never had one. They just seemed too impractical or something, and besides, Josh and I were usually at our family’s homes for the holidays, so what was the point? A Very She and Him Christmas (beautiful!
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July | 2014 | This Is Where I Stand
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This Is Where I Stand. Feet grounded, eyes open, grateful to be me. July 30, 2014. Everywhere I look, there is loveliness. From the simple oak top of my kitchen table to the small people who sleep, undisturbed, in bedrooms where fans blow gentle wind across their faces all night long. I didn’t mean for my life to be this busy. I had no idea it would be this lovely heart-breakingly gorgeous when what’s hard is also beautiful. Perfection is never something I’ve hungered for but rather the beauty an...And w...
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Vocation | This Is Where I Stand
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This Is Where I Stand. Feet grounded, eyes open, grateful to be me. January 21, 2015. January 23, 2015. Right now I’m in a bit of a vocational crisis. It would help if I explained a few things to start: I am currently half time Communications Director and quarter time Lecturer in English at a smallish Lutheran college in the Pacific Northwest. This is a job I literally fell into, and my roles at the college have changed and grown in the five years that I’ve worked there. Even writing about it here, the f...
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December | 2013 | This Is Where I Stand
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This Is Where I Stand. Feet grounded, eyes open, grateful to be me. December 29, 2013. This season has been one of unraveling of unending the things I thought I could count on and transforming my heart into something new entirely. On June 7, 2012, we arrived home from China with our third child a boy, Matthew, 18 months, with an unrepaired cleft lip and palate. And so began a journey I never expected would be ours. Such is the journey I find myself on right now. It’s a bipolar path, for sure. One day...
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October | 2014 | This Is Where I Stand
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This Is Where I Stand. Feet grounded, eyes open, grateful to be me. When it’s over. October 23, 2014. When it’s over, I want to say all my life. I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder. If I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened,. Or full of argument. I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world. October 22, 2014. But run away I can’t. Th...
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August | 2014 | This Is Where I Stand
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This Is Where I Stand. Feet grounded, eyes open, grateful to be me. Fall in the Air. August 25, 2014. August 25, 2014. It’s that time of year again. Time to start putting away the summer clothes and to start looking towards fall, Time to buy all the back-to-school supplies and make sure everyone has a good pair of rain boots and enough socks and underwear to last them the school year. But amidst the challenges is this overwhelming sense of goodness that comes from deep within my soul. And the thought...
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Standing barefoot before God | This Is Where I Stand
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This Is Where I Stand. Feet grounded, eyes open, grateful to be me. Standing barefoot before God. January 13, 2015. This piece is in response to a spiritual writing prompt I gave the students in my Creative Writing class here at our writer’s retreat in Bellingham, entitled Standing Barefoot Before God. As our family navigates a very challenging season with our youngest son, both my sorrow and my hope are present in this spiritual writing exercise. With soft, tender breath and gentle yet strong arms, you ...
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I sit here and welcome the morning | This Is Where I Stand
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This Is Where I Stand. Feet grounded, eyes open, grateful to be me. I sit here and welcome the morning. January 8, 2015. I sit here and welcome the morning. Whatever yesterday brought is gone, washed out to sea with the midnight high tide, and the beach is smooth once again. His mercies are new every morning. The wise book tells me. How much I need that to be true in this season of challenge and questions and unknowns. And the gentle touch of the morning is a welcome gift and a reminder of the promises I...
