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Not a Kid-person | Spero Nest
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Hope and other things from this home. April 15, 2015. April 15, 2015. About a year ago my husband and I were walking through Chicago with our new baby, Gu. S, when a man stopped us, asking for money for a nearby school. You like children, he inferred, gesturing at the baby. Well, we do have five of them, I said. Whoa, you love kids! You’re crazy about kids! He exclaimed, shaking his head in disbelief. To obsessions with control (weight control, birth control, mind control, bladder control, remote control...
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A Trinity | Spero Nest
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Hope and other things from this home. January 26, 2015. January 26, 2015. The other night, after getting up to care for the baby, I lay in bed awake for a rare few minutes writing part of this poem in my head. I welcome your thoughts about it or about other ordinary and extraordinary moments of communion. Last night I heard the baby cry. I got up and went to him. He sat on his bed, bewildered, cold and sad. Though he was calling for me he shrieked,. Startled, when I came. He is full of quiet. Your writin...
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Expecting Baby #7 and I’m Finally Tired of This – Brave New Family
https://bravenewfamily.net/2015/07/27/expecting-baby-7-and-im-finally-tired-of-this
Insights, articles, musings, dialog From a Catholic perspective. Expecting Baby #7 and I’m Finally Tired of This. July 27, 2015. August 5, 2015. Or being slowly driven crazy? Setting out into marriage without the culture’s favorite parenting tip, “the plan”? Seven That’s seven, honey, in case you need the cashier to point out what the rest of us in line behind you can’t help but see and hear. Are you done yet? Are you going for greatest amount of stretch-marks award? Dear God in Heaven! We honestly don&#...