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More Than Just Adam's Rib: August 2014
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Friday, August 29, 2014. Letting Loose a Blessing. Each afternoon and Saturday mornings, my backyard is alight with more shrieks, screams, and laughter than this farm has ever before seen. Three generations worth of bottled up happiness has been loosed upon this red clay soil, blessing everyone in its path. It all started three weeks ago on the morning of August 7. Earlier one summer morning, husband had come home with the secret news. Would I be ok with his parents gifting so generously to our family?
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More Than Just Adam's Rib: January 2015
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Friday, January 23, 2015. A Willing Exchange: Training for My First Half Marathon. This is the photo that shows who I am more than any others taken in the last few months. It shows a mother stooping down from the towering height of adulthood to join the lower sphere of childhood, a physical act that never fails to immediately communicate to my children their importance to me. You have mommy's full attention. Go! I can identify with his face. It's accompanied with a gnawing fear in your gut that no ma...
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More Than Just Adam's Rib: July 2014
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Thursday, July 31, 2014. When Mothers Embrace the Silence. I rocked my baby today. Pulled him gently onto my lap and cradled his head into the crook of my arm, just like I used to do when I could easily carry him from room to room. Still, I held him as if he fit perfectly (which he did), stroked the softness of his still-little-boy face, noticed the distinct outline of his lips, the blue green flecks in his brown eyes that focused intently on my face while I spoke words of comfort. A slight smile tipped ...
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More Than Just Adam's Rib: Changing Rings
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Tuesday, April 7, 2015. Today I am not wearing the wedding band husband slipped on my finger when we promised each other forever. Most days, that glittering symbol of our mutual devotion sits safely in my jewelry chest, far from the dirt and grime of farm life. There was a time when I thought I would never take it off. One lazy Sunday afternoon not too long after my engagement, I sat daydreaming in the warmth of a Louisiana autumn sun. With one tilt of my hand, my heart did a nosedive. 8220;I love you...
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More Than Just Adam's Rib: Who Needs A Change of Scenery?
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Thursday, October 9, 2014. Who Needs A Change of Scenery? The dusty patches near the edge of the drive are stamped with overlapping hexagons, proof that I have literally been wearing a path between my house and my in laws' end of the farm. Each week since late July, I've been slowly increasing my distance, on my way to 13.1 miles for the half marathon in January 2015. That was almost three months ago. By Monday, I will be up to 10-mile treks, but don't be fooled- I am no. But in the midst of all these fe...
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More Than Just Adam's Rib: June 2014
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Friday, June 20, 2014. When Strangers Become Family. It was August 2009 when I finally gathered enough courage to begin taking my trio of terror to the library. The twins were a few months shy of one year old, which meant the trip involved the limousine stroller, complete with its bulldozer-type handling. Lots of them. Doled out one at a time and shoved- along with an entire fist- into little bird mouths. My then two-year-old would make. To be children.were accepted. As children, were celebrated. It wasn...
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More Than Just Adam's Rib: Reduced Price Globe Trotting
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Friday, September 12, 2014. Reduced Price Globe Trotting. Liza and Amelia mix up a batch of Holland jodenkoeken cookies. Let's face it- chances are most of us will never be able to send our children around the globe to see the seven wonders of the world found in history books. One or two countries? Maybehopefully. A whole European vacation? Not unless they become nomadic gypsies in their twenties. With these goals in mind, five months ago,our family began a tour of the globe. Australia, Mexico, Russia, S...
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More Than Just Adam's Rib: When A Beloved Soldier Comes Home
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Friday, October 31, 2014. When A Beloved Soldier Comes Home. It's been almost a year since my mother, sister-in-love, and I found three identical boxes under the Christmas tree. Each contained a multi-corded bracele. T made out of caramel and walnut leather ending in a simple, silver anchor. I faithfully wrapped the bracelet around my wrist every morning after dressing, set it on the bedside table with my wedding band every night. And in between, I prayed. When I closed the lid to the washing machine, wh...
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More Than Just Adam's Rib: A Modern Parable of the Lost Coin
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Saturday, March 22, 2014. A Modern Parable of the Lost Coin. My father said he was jolted out of a deep sleep at 1:30 am, his unconscious brain somehow realizing what his conscious mind had not- the ring on his right hand was missing. I spoke with my mother a few short hours later. Both parents had already spent much of the morning searching through a half acre of closely cropped grass. From her tone, it was clear she had given up and had moved on to another Saturday project. An hour later, we had come u...
