Thanksgiving Day 2007
Thanksgiving Day 2006
This morning, for the first time in three years, I woke up in my own bed on Thanksgiving morning. There were no alarms sounding, no buzzing of machines, not even the hiss of oxygen.
Just me, my husband, my bed.
Am I thankful for that?
Is this better than the alternative?
Lately, I’ve found the [...]
if one of my kids wasn’t having trouble breathing.
Not that it came as a surprise, but the allergist confirmed my suspicions of asthma in little Miss Lila today. It was incredibly emotional for David and I to give Lila her first breathing treatment. Too many memories…poor sweet girl…here’s to multiple asthma meds twice daily, a [...]
Like mother…
Like daughter…
Full Circle.
I distinctly remembering my mother saying, “We’ve come full circle,” on the one year of my father’s passing on February 22, 1999.
Full Circle.
Full: Containing all that is normal or possible
cir·cle: A series or process that finishes at its starting point or continuously repeats itself; a cycle.
Full Circle.
At sixteen, I thought that was brilliant.
At [...]
As a child, November meant two things:
1) visiting family
2) HEAT!
As much as my parents tried to express their love and affection with more clothing and toys then we could ever need, they refused to turn on the heat in the winter and the air conditioning in the summer. It was nuts really. We’d walk around [...]
