“Well, good for you. You stopped rushing your younger child and undid some of the damage, but what about your older daughter? What about her? What about the damage you did to her?” It was a question posed by a commenter on this post almost a year after it was published. Although the reader had no way of knowing, I’d…
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Knowing Where Your People Are
“But I’ll kneel down, Wait for now And I’ll kneel down, Know my ground And I will wait, I will wait for you.” –Mumford & Sons At the beginning of any school year, there are always quite a few student information sheets to fill out. But when I came to the pink sheet in my second grader’s folder, I was…
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How to Change Someone’s Story
This summer my family moved to a new state. Over the past couple months, I’ve repeatedly heard my younger daughter say, “I still don’t feel like this is home. It feels like we’re on a trip, and we need to get back.” Sometimes she says it through tears. Other times she says it just matter-of-factly. And sometimes she even laughs…
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Life on Repeat
“But if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like nothing changed at all? And if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like you’ve been here before? How am I gonna be an optimist about this?” -Bastille I don’t think it was meant as a criticism, but the words stung a little. “Usually I have to really…
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Finding Your Footing in New Beginnings
“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. ” –Lin Yutang One of the first things I did when I moved to my new state this summer was look for a quiet place to walk. You may recall that I had a hilly, serene area near…
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Moving On Better Than I Was Before
There is a moving van parked in front of my house today. This is the house where I let life slip right through my multi-tasking fingers, but it is also the house where I grasped what mattered with two free hands and one committed heart. Although my husband and I have moved four times since we were married, this fifth…
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