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Minute Made – a litany of grand moments in a simple life
on either side of mewith lemonade in hand“clink”he says contentedlyand their Minute Maid juice boxestap together happily incheers, cheers, cheers. and oh how I agree— cheers to you andcheers to you,my daughter and my son.cheers to dreams I couldn’t imagineever coming truesome seven years agowhile your dad and I began a garden andleaned into life… Continue reading
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Heartbeat – a poem for happy, sad expectant mothers
Last spring as oak leaves finally came in green I stared at them, blue sky between, felt sad about things outside my grasp, no control for what may happen next. But before the spring turned up sad I found out about you one Sunday afternoon. Tucked quiet, happy in my womb, I thought all that’s… Continue reading
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There Are Things I Wasn’t Prepared for When I Became a Mother
there are things I wasn’t prepared for when I became a mother. how four years later I’d feel sad for my son who loved a beetle-bug he kept in a small pumpkin house or crawling cheerfully on his dinosaur shirt. my son carried this bug so happily, so carefully, but the beetle-bug would fall on… Continue reading
