the /grace/ between
The grace poured out between.
On Keeping Them Safe
(Trigger warning: Brief mention of suicide and self harm.) When I turned forty, I thought I said goodbye to a decade of being tired. Chuckbob wasn’t even a thought. COVID was months away. // I remember when my Second Son was just weeks old, and I was a fresh mom...
Memorial Day …. Remembering.
Today is a day of remembering the dead .... But I believe with every ounce of my being that they live, and keep on living, if we each take part in the remembering. In our memories. In photos, blogs, stories, in Facebook feeds. In our fight to bring them...
Love of a Good Man ….
I thought about this all day on Valentine's Day this year. Started to write about it even ... but we were elbows deep in germs right about then and I couldn't muster the energy to finish it.(And by the way, I L.O.V.E. starting traditions. It provides consistency in...
You Know You Are On A Budget …..
(Editor's Note: Normally I shy away from posting photos of myself. Especially ones that I took on my cellphone .... of myself. But this .... this I could not pass up. I promise no duck face.) You know you are on a budget when your Husband finds these .... (See...
I’m Still Here …
I'm still here. Just feeling a gloomy shade of grey these days.There is no overwhelming tragedy, no disaster looming. Just the particulars of an Army life. Moving .... again. Saying goodbye .... again. Hearing the J girl talking in a mournful voice about saying...
Seven Years
Seven years. We’ve been married seven years today. If you’re counting, and clearly, I am, we’ve occupied the same physical location for 3.5 of those years. 3 moves. 4 deployments. 4 pregnancies. 2 sweet babes here, 2 sweet babes in heaven. 3.5 years together. 3.5...
Wee Man’s Baptism …. photos.
38 And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off,...