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Hello my lovelies,
Life has been insane.   It’s a lot of working inviting a child into your home.  Lots of red tape to deal with.   Many frustrations.   But we’ve had one visit there and a weekend visit here.  Last weekend was so much fun having a 15 year old in the house.  She is sweet and [...]

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New Chapter

Thank you to the few who are still coming back and checking in.  My life has taken dramatic change over the course of the past few weeks.  Funny how you can go along in life thinking you KNOW exactly what will happen next and suddenly comes an opportunity you never imagined.
My husband, Patrick, worked as a case manager [...]

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Over the weekend I started a painting of this sketch I made a couple of weeks ago. 

It is inspired by my interest in going to cemeteries and photographing headstones.  I do family genealogy and photographing family headstones has long been an interest of mine but over the last year, it has expanded to exploring my [...]

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Today a father and a mother buried their daughter.  Jarah was only 18-years-old but she had touched the lives of everyone she knew.  She was a sister,  a niece, an aunt, a cousin, a friend, a student, a neighbor.  And she was also a mother to a beautiful 4-month-old little boy who looks just like [...]

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Expectations

Sometimes I think it would be better to just have no expectations.   When you have expectations in a relationship, it usually leads to disappointment.   And when you lower your expectations, then you get to be surprised and delighted when they are exceeded.  I keep remembering when our relationship was fresh and new and I never knew [...]

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