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Big Blessings | Sassy Lassy's Blog
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Sassy Lassy's Blog. When life hands you lemons, make Limoncello. The Stork Has Landed. To Love is to be Vulnerable →. Then five days later while passing the exact spot on our way home from the hospital, the sun was shining, and I noticed the leaves had all turned golden. “When did that happen? Levi nice and cozy. We could weave baskets together? Okay, so it is not perfect. We would like to see something healthier offered after mass in the hall, instead of just coffee and donuts. Bagels anyone? But, if th...
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Counting Our Way to Sleeping Bear Dunes | Sassy Lassy's Blog
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Sassy Lassy's Blog. When life hands you lemons, make Limoncello. Counting Our Way to Sleeping Bear Dunes. On our trip to Sleepin g. Bear Dunes this summer we brou g. As we left the city behind we passed FOUR lakes. Up and down, around the rolling hills we sped until break time at Isle of Ferns Park in Wausau, Wisconsin where we discovered FIVE fun bridges. After a hot hike in the park we enjoy. SIX cool dilly bars on the road. Around the park SEVEN geese followed us. E amendment vote in November. Come no...
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Doing More of Nothing | Sassy Lassy's Blog
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Sassy Lassy's Blog. When life hands you lemons, make Limoncello. Advent and Christmas 2011. A Face of Despair →. Doing More of Nothing. January 26, 2012. Isaac's nap time. All this work on material things is exhausting. “The more you have. The more it has you.” they say. Material things require maintenance. Heck our spiritual lives require maintenance. Is there anything out there that doesn’t require, demand, request anything of me? Is this what the mystics referred to as meditation? You are commenting u...
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The Modern Mom: November 2012
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Living Motherhood After Adoption. Friday, November 30, 2012. It’s been a season of holding on, letting go, growing spiritually, and seeking to know my true self over my false self. It’s been a handful. My heart is full as I enter the advent season with my girls. The Christmas tree is decorated, the manger placed and filled with animals. Twila took particular pride in handing the bags to folks I agreed were indeed homeless and saying reverently, “This is for you.”. The rest of the activities this year var...
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The Modern Mom: November 2011
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Living Motherhood After Adoption. Wednesday, November 9, 2011. Blue Piss and Other Joys and Challenges. Walking through the aisles of Target the other day, I was working on being more light-hearted. It has occurred to me lately that I take myself, specifically, and “things” in general, far too seriously. I was thinking of these mellow moms as I tried a new tack for shopping with two kids. Soon Twila was laughing and running around too. I thought. It’s a Tuesday afternoon, Target is deserted....Twila t...
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The Modern Mom: September 2011
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Living Motherhood After Adoption. Monday, September 19, 2011. Twila’s First Day of School. Twila’s first day of full-day, pre-kindergarten was mediocre. She was SO excited for school to start. I mean for months. She had been asking when she got to start all day. School. So maybe that was part of the trouble. With such high hopes, how can things possibly go as well as she envisioned? We donned the backpack, braided the hair, photographed the new outfit and off we went. 8221; I was laying it on thick; the ...
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The Modern Mom: Coming out of the Poppy Field
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Living Motherhood After Adoption. Friday, September 14, 2012. Coming out of the Poppy Field. It was a week of firsts for our family. Jada had her first day of preschool and on Saturday she went to her first “friend’s” birthday party. Twila’s first soccer practice happened two days after her first day of Kindergarten and two days before her first soccer game. And I did. We did. We summered it up. We went for long walks with our puppy and played for hours outside breaking only for picnic lunche...We langui...
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The Modern Mom: July 2012
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Living Motherhood After Adoption. Tuesday, July 10, 2012. I should have figured this out sooner. I should have interpreted the myriad blank stares on my daughters' faces as simply a lack of comprehension instead of my first assumption that they were actually ignoring me when I asked them to: get their shoes/ take off their wet clothes/ leave their muddy rain boots at the door/ wash their hands/ let go of their sisters’ hair/ take that toy out of their underwear. So you can imagine my relief to discover t...
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The Modern Mom: February 2012
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Living Motherhood After Adoption. Thursday, February 23, 2012. The Fuel That Keeps Us Going. I took an hour long nap yesterday. It was the kind of nap that passes only briefly through weird fitful dreams then drops you rapidly into deep and dreamless immovable, impenetrable, heavy slumber. Today, my rest was more important than hers. And that was how I found myself crashed to oblivion with a noise machine whirring away and the humidifier humming in my daughters’ bedroom. Twila was wearing the new dress t...
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The Modern Mom: October 2012
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Living Motherhood After Adoption. Wednesday, October 17, 2012. The Six Year Change. Twila, Age 18 Months. I realized how mellow and mild Twila had been. When Jada was born, I came to see how helpful, responsible and sensitive Twila really was. Of course I’d known this already on some level but the contrast of their personalities brought into even sharper relief Twila’s mild demeanor. Kids at school. Never did it cross my mind that this behavior originated with Twila herself. Not just our poor parenting o...