Until, Jude…

Have a third child. It’ll be fun, they said. Our third child has proven to us in more ways than we’d like to admit – that we are average, at best, at parenting. When we were raising our older two children we often marveled at how well-behaved, easy and manageable our children were; that because […]

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Empty. Hollow.

September brings about reminders of change. Two years ago we were preparing for one of the biggest changes in our life – the addition of our third child.  We hadn’t really planned on having any more children, but then life circumstances afforded us the opportunity to reevaluate what was most important to us and that […]

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Most Honored Lady

The very first letter (which was actually an email) my husband wrote me began with the greeting, Most Honored Lady; the way in which his favorite composer wrote to his wife.  The fact that we wrote each other actual sentences and complete thoughts as opposed to abbreviated jargon and emoji-based texts is something I perceive to be lost on the current […]

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