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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

a little behind

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so we're a little behind.  i'm used to that.  it seems to be par for my course  - this decade anyway. this running behind should fal...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

be mine

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i held in my hand a tiny sugared heart. "be mine," it read. it is february and every imaginable surface is littered with heart...
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Thursday, February 11, 2010

a mother

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this week i have thought often of zuzu's biological mother. i am sure february 5th did not pass by without her remembering the daughter ...
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Friday, February 5, 2010

february fifth...

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we have this special birthday plate in our house. i made it many years ago for the kids.  the birthday child eats breakfast, lunch and dinne...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

an ordinary day

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dear bella ~  today is an ordinary day.  it is one of those mid-january days filled with quiet and cold.   i did have to get up early, pac...
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Monday, January 18, 2010

grand prize winners

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i can't promise it is always pleasant to be the recipient of a letter from the United States government.  even if we are anticipating go...
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Friday, January 8, 2010

neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow...

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i climbed into my yukon xl with all of its four-wheel- drive-power-and-performance and i braved the roads. treachorous.  hazardous.  perilo...
Saturday, January 2, 2010

a long way

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i still claim this whole adoption journey to be the fault of my friend beverly.  she was the one.  she was the one that brought us the file ...
Friday, January 1, 2010

all things new

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out with the old... and in with the new.  really? is that truly what we seek come december 31st?  why is it that on new year's eve we ar...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

fingerprints

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we spent this morning tangling ourselves in yet another piece of sticky red tape.  there is nothing quite like the central immigration o...
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

a princess on the other side of the world

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this morning i woke with sweet thoughts.  tonight we will attend a party for a daughter we have not yet met.  several friends were hosting a...
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Sunday, December 20, 2009

grey things

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it hung there, dangling by mere thread.  well, not exactly a thread, maybe a root.  i don't know for  sure, i am not a dentist, i am a m...
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