Monthly Archives: June 2009

Next best thing

So we took this second trip.

It was fun and crazy, but most of the times I felt alive, like I could see colors brighter, words clearer – my children full of life. Perhaps it’s my hormones. I don’t know, but I’m happy to enjoy it for a bit.
I laughed, I yelled, and I [...]

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Vacations military style

This week, I took my six year old daughter Anna to a competitive gymnastics’ camp, 500 miles away from our home. She’s too young to stay overnight so we, myself and her four sisters, had to go with her. My husband and I had originally planned that I would take Anna to the camp with [...]

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War, yellow ribbons and gatorade

My 6 year old daughter Anna rolled on the ground screaming and clutching her stomach as my other children pulled on my arm, covered their eyes and cried. She screamed that the pain in her tummy was too much to take. I tried to touch her, she rolled away, threw up and passed out.
I [...]

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