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One Thousand Gifts, a beginning

by Robin | Mar 21, 2011 | (in)courage, Book Review, Books, Family, Life with boys, Mothers and daughters, One Thousand Gifts

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~ G.K. Chesterton I continue to savor Ann Voskamp's One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are; it won't be...

When days are numbered…

by Robin | Mar 17, 2011 | Family, Kids, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Parenting, Personal, Teens & Tweens

The moon is halfway through the sky and I am alone when they bring her to me and I'm glad. She is joy bundled in flannely white with end stripes in pink and blue. I smile to think she looks like an ice cream cone–swaddled tightly with the...

Scars and redemption

by Robin | Mar 14, 2011 | Breast Cancer, Cancer is NOT okay!, Inspiring, Memoir, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Personal

I remember seeing her scars one time. Only once. A body disfigured by diseased malevolence, a thief whose plunder demanded dignity and femininity and time…and eventually hope and life. It's a scant memory, a fleeting, vapored ghost, which I...

Blink

by Robin | Aug 11, 2010 | Missions, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Parenting, Personal, Uncategorized

You might hate me for what I’m about to tell you, but I think it’s in your best interest To Know. Mind you, I’m giving you the benefit of warning, a few seconds to steady your footing. When I was told, on the other hand, my well-meaning...

Fair of face, my Monday child

by Robin | Aug 17, 2009 | Beauty, Family, Kids, Memoir, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Parenting, Personal, Uncategorized

She was born on a Monday. Hers was not a delivery of water breaking and husband waking, contractions aching and “it’s time!” mistaking; it was planned for convenience (my doctor’s) and impatience (my own). My body signaled “ready”...

Unintentional lessons

by Robin | Aug 10, 2009 | (in)courage, Cancer is NOT okay!, Encouragement, Faith, Family, Memoir, Mothers and daughters, Personal

"I wanted you to see what real courage is….It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."~ Atticus Finch, in Harper Lee's, "To Kill a...