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Category Archives: Sentimental

Over the years, I’ve seen a few big things. They include life-changing opportunities, mind-altering moments, and messes caused by my toddler son in the backseat of my car that rival those of even drunken college friends who used to drive around while hoarding discarded take-out containers and empty beer cans. They include the disasters that […]

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Today’s Our Land Series piece has been contributed by a returning author. She is a kickassawesome blog friend who gets much of what I feel when it comes to searching for a diagnosis. Our kids don’t have an autism diagnosis, but both have special needs. They are also both adorable and amazing. I have been […]

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It’s that wonderful time of year filled with cookies, ribbons, broken childhood ornaments, impossible to assemble toys, and just enough magic and laughter sprinkled throughout to give parents something to hang onto so that we gleefully repeat the whole process each year. While Tucker did break a Frosty the Snowman ornament that had my 1977 […]

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This holiday season, I’ll do a lot of things. I’ll play with my son in the freezing cold, watch The Charlie Brown Christmas show with him, and I’ll buy him something that he doesn’t need, anticipating the joy on his face when he sees that he has a present a few presents too many presents under our tree. […]

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Happy Thanksgiving! Today, we give thanks for our friends, family, the trials that have made us stronger, and the blessings and milestones we meet with tears and celebrations. Let’s remember gratitude and kindness. Giving back. Let’s remember that everybody is important, and that everybody has a story, whether they live in a car or in a […]

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I lived for 37 years before meeting my husband. 37 years is a lot of years. At times, it’s hard to imagine the thoughts, dreams, hopes, and heartbreaks of then-me.  Then-me seems vague, somehow. Now-me, and Mom-me are so righthere and rightnow that I forget how very much past darkness, and past lightnesses, have helped […]

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