Two weeks ago, the first cough rang out into the night. Maybe that’s overly dramatic, so I’ll distill what has been going on at our house: Archie has whooping cough and confirmed influenza, most of the rest of us had the flu, and all eleven of us are on antibiotics to protect Oliver from […] 
Jessica Ridgeway was a girl who lived in our neighborhood. Eight days ago, she was snatched from her family by someone cruel, foul, monstrous. Her death was confirmed yesterday. Over the past week, makeshift beacons for her return cropped up in our subdivision. Someone tied purple—Jessica’s favorite color—ribbons around fence posts and tree trunks. […] 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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