”…you’ll never know…
how much I love you…
Please don’t take
my Sunshine
Away…..”
Thus is the end of the song my daughter, your granddaughter loves. The song that was chosen for her by you. The song that describes her, the feeling I had for her once she was born, but never said out loud.
She is Sunshine.
And until she came [...]
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Happy New Year!
We’re in a new year and I feel so much hope and promise on this day for this year. Life feels good, warm, relaxed for all I have on my plate, for all my family has going on. The mere fact that I’ve put this perspective in writing, for you to read and [...]
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Ben,
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christmas,
life,
Violet,
Zach
As we sit performing our ritual for evening nights where the only worries we have for the next day are what time the kids will wake, or if we’ll even be able to make it through a solid night of precious sleep, I think of the waters we’ve surfed, the mountains summited. As we [...]
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Zach
She has been one of my greatest contributions to this world; full of love, and light, laughter, intrigue, curiosity, maintaining buoyancy in all the life around her, gifted to her, made by her.
Changing outfits sometimes hourly, loving the clothes of the summer all year long. Flip-flops, or bare feet is preferred, and though she [...]
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Zach
I’m thinking of taking a little dive. I do love the feel of warm waters softly contouring my limbs as I try to keep afloat on my way to the other side of the pool….
This pool is overwhelmingly large. An abyss of activity, fluttering, flurrying, pushing, shoving and competing for a little bit [...]
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Autism,
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Recommended Reading,
Special Needs,
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Violet
It’s important to pay attention when you’re given special things in life. When you’re blessed. When you have nothing to complain about. When you’re lucky. When you’re loved.
Today is one of many days for me to acknowledge how all of this can be rolled into one being; one amazing example of [...]
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He’s the one who brought us together; the one who was the Best Man at our wedding; the one for whom our only wish was that would dance. He is my Angel. He is my Alex and today is his birthday.
The excitement that came with his birth has been overshadowed by none. [...]
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Alex,
birthday
She’s 2.
Yesterday the Light of Our Lives, the Sunshine in Our Hearts turned 2. Going on 10, but she turned 2.
I know a lot of blogger say a lot of endearing things about their children on their birthdays, and I want to say the same, but I also want you to know her. Actually know [...]
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