Lux et umbra vicissum…

Ick, tummy trouble. Could I be any more tired? Adoption sounds nice.

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You know something’s up when you find yourself sitting at the kitchen table in the middle of the afternoon eating leftover cold pasta with honey french dressing dumped on it.

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Through my trip to Croatia, I was made aware of a 10 year old Roma Gypsy boy in a refugee camp in Montenegro. He has life-threatening scoliosis. A group of us – some in the US, some in England, some in Croatia – are trying to get him over to the US for life-saving surgery. […]

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… and I don’t have much time before the pizza gets out of the oven. We’re all getting over some funky virus, I had to get over an even funkier one that I got in Croatia and that lasted for a month or so, we’ve been through all kinds of preschool decisions, and there was, […]

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I wish these anti-depressants would kick in. Did you know that postpartum depression is kicked off by the drop in pregnancy hormones in a woman’s body? That same drop happens when a woman miscarries. Granted, the drop isn’t as severe since the hormone level hasn’t gotten as high, but she also doesn’t have a little […]

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Not long after my last entry, Joel and I were thrilled to find out that we were in fact expecting again. The first test I had done gave a false negative, but I tested again a few days later and it was positive. Then I started bleeding. I’ve been through this once before and it […]

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Now, to be fair, I did say I’d have to have a very convincing reason to return to WalMart for portraits. I got one. 🙂 After checking out The Picture People’s packages, I decided we couldn’t afford them. They have a good reputation, but the cost is higher than I remembered. (We had a picture […]

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As much as I like WalMart in general, unless I have a very convincing reason to go there for pictures again, it ain’t happening. A few days ago I called and made a portrait appointment for today at a WalMart fairly near us. We’ve had good pictures taken by the photographer there before and I […]

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I’ve noticed at least two real life examples where one plus one does not equal two. The first is having a second child. Thankfully in this case, one plus one seems to equal more like one and a half since the older child actually entertains the younger one a bit (even when they don’t intend […]

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I’m three days late and not pregnant. Normally that would be depressing, but it’s not a terrible thing this month. First of all, we took a break from “trying” in that I didn’t bother checking my ovulation tester. It made a significant difference in my stress level, enough so that I’m wondering if I should […]

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