She’s been looking forward to turning six since the day after she turned five. Maybe it’s because it has a nice ring to it: “Beatrix is six.” How many of our names rhyme with our ages? It doesn’t happen often. Beatrix Beatrix wanted a “B” cake. At first, I was charmed by […] I could see you in the rearview mirror. You sat in the back row of the van, your head bowed. You had a pencil. The only reason I knew about it was because you chewed on the eraser. I drive these roads every day, four times a day. The curves, hills, trees in the […] On November 2, 2005, I wrote the following in a post called Blow out the candle. Joel, our fifth child, had just turned two. By the time my older kids were two, they each had a younger sibling. Joel did not because of two devastating pregnancy losses. I was clinically infertile. Yes, even a mom […] |
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