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Archive for December, 2009

anticipation

Posted in Uncategorized on December 24, 2009 | 6 Comments »

As we celebrate the birth of the Christ child this evening, we are also eagerly awaiting the birth of another sweet babe. Ava likes to put her face right up to my stomach and say, “Mama, don’t you wish it was like an oven so we could turn the light on and take a peek?” [...]

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winter blooms

Posted in Uncategorized on December 20, 2009 | 5 Comments »

I love that in Minnesota, Christmas truly falls in the dead of winter. All vegetation is either encased in ice or locked under the frozen ground. Snow covers the rooftops, the sidewalks, the railings and the lampposts. And by 4:30 in the evening this world of white is shrouded in darkness. These are the darkest [...]

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mayflower makeover

Posted in Uncategorized on December 11, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Before Thanksgiving, Ava’s Kindergarten class was studying the early explorers. They stowed away on the Nina to learn all about Christopher Columbus adventurous voyage and then they packed paper trunks to join the pilgrims on the Mayflower. Yesterday, I was helping out in her classroom and noticed that they still had some pilgrim art on [...]

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all through the night

Posted in the ones about babes in heaven, the ones about hope on December 9, 2009 | 19 Comments »

This is a post that has been sitting in the queue of my heart for a long time. You could say that it is long overdue. I have wrestled with whether I should write again about losing babies and the longing to have more children. I want to be faithful to the story that God [...]

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