Lux et umbra vicissum…

It’s been quite a week and a half or so here. It amazes me sometimes how quickly some things tend to happen. You think you’ll have plenty of time to deal with major life changes, but that’s not always the case. Ok, so maybe this wasn’t as major a life change as some, but it […]

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Well, it looks like bill HB 581 is doing well. Check out the update. I couldn’t find an update on HB 1354, but I’m hoping to see something about it in the next few days. When there’s any news on it, you can find it here. What a day! The leak in our roof has […]

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So, it’s been… what?… a week and a bit since we turned off the monitor in our bedroom? I have to tell you, I feel like a new woman! Are we still waking up in the night? Sometimes. When we do it’s maybe 2 times… 3 if the kids are at the peak of a […]

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There are two bills now facing the Virginia General Assembly. If they are eventually passed, they will allow midwives to be licensed by the state of Virginia. Hallelujah! I’ll explain my excitement, then I’ll tell you how you can help if you’re a Virginian. When I gave birth to my first daughter, I was induced […]

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I think it’s a shame that the pro-abortion crowd has claimed the term “pro-choice”. I’m exceedingly anti-abortion (if you want to get me going, tell me you’re a pro-choice Christian), but I believe that we do have choices in a lot of areas and I believe that we need to give our children choices if […]

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It’s hard to find an online Latin translator, so I’ll provide a translation for my new blog title. It’s “light and shadow by turn”, and it seemed appropriate for my rather mood-based entries. I took it from a quote I learned back in highschool (I took four years of Latin, most of which I’ve forgotten, […]

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When Alexis was an infant, we did the whole “tough love” thing and let her cry sometimes at night so she learned she could put herself back to sleep. It worked beautifully and she slept through the night from a very early age. However, since Branwen has been born, both of them have been waking […]

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I found with my first and doubly so with my second that the only reading time I get is while I’m nursing the baby. Actually, I usually end up being drafted to read Clifford books to Alexis during that time (“I’m going to climb up here and you will read this to me!”), but when […]

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Wow. The holidays are always so crazy. I can hardly believe that Christmas is over, the New Year has begun, and Joel’s back at work. Alexis misses having her daddy at home. She cried the first morning he went back. It was really quite sweet. Now we’re counting the days till Saturday. 🙂 Branwen had […]

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It’s a crazy time of year, and the thing is, as many times as I remind myself of what the season is really about… well, it doesn’t make it any less crazy, really. The season is about the birth of Jesus, the Christ child, God’s son. That’s wonderful, and terribly important to remember. However, Jesus’ […]

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