How we came to know “George” #Best09

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We became homeowners about 8 weeks after Kendall was born. You should really never close on a house when your newborn is plagued with colic, but hindsight is 20/20… or something like that. Anyway, we had a *house* for close to a year, but we didn’t really have a *home* until sometime this summer. Truth [...]

How I gave birth to my second marathon

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“This your first marathon?” I ask the girl to my right. “This is my first and my last,” she replies as we pass mile marker 7. “You say that…” my running partner and I both respond together, and then smile at each other. Others in the pace group start to chime in, “You’ll forget all [...]

I think they’re working.

Timeouts, that is. Or maybe it’s just the combination of focusing on lowering my stress level, his new language explosion (even if it’s still in a super secret language that only I can understand), and him finally getting old enough to understand, if only a little bit, that there can be consequences to his actions. [...]

Moment of Peace, my #Best09 entry

Silence except the sound of my footsteps, rhythmically pounding in time with the sound of my breathing… heavy at this point, but not labored. As the sun gets high in the sky it lights up the gentle rolls in the water that fills the lake. It’s nearly noon. I come to a bridge that I [...]