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saturday.

  • by nic
  • Posted on May 28, 2012

we slept in till seven our first morning of summer break. the oldest and i…

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a useful snake tip.

  • by nic
  • Posted on May 22, 2012

i’ve been coaching a passel of first and second graders, and last night was our…

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a letter to my mom.

  • by nic
  • Posted on May 14, 2012

dear mom, the peonies are waxing, pink-feathered and fragrant, and i snap off a few…

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One of the surest gifts of my life is how this guy dreams with me. He’ll hear the slow burn in my voice when I talk about children or Kenya, wood fired pizza or London or backpacking or people displaced, and he’ll let his heart catch fire too. 
Growing up, we had a fridge magnet with that Elizabeth Stone quote — how being a mom means watching your heart walk around outside your body. At the time I found this sentimental and overbaked. 
“O Come, all you unfaithful 
Last fall one of our old dorm guys wrote to tell us he was headed to college in the States. We’d been praying with him for exactly this, but I was equal parts thrilled and concerned. My immediate response was to turn to my husband and ask, “Do you think anyone’s warned him? Do you think he knows the things to do to stay alive?”⁣
Braden, you wonderful human.⁣
Today is our anniversary. Three years ago it was also our anniversary, because apparently that’s how anniversaries work, and I spent the bulk of that day painting the interior walls of a hospital with Lauren and my soul-twin Jannae.⁣
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