Month: July 2011

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Jul 29, 2011

Birth of the miracle, birth of the ‘yes’

I remember well the wedding of her parents.  As our own Boy Two squirmed, thrilled, in his small, rented tux, tracing the alphabet in the carpet down in front, my

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Jul 28, 2011

Send the moms to The Hill – we’ll get it done

Who says I can’t write a good mystery? Call me the Tom Brokaw, the Shepard Smith of our household, but I take my reporting duties very seriously.  As soon as

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Jul 26, 2011

Wherever they go, He’s got it covered

They’d participated in numerous church services, sharing their testimonies and encouraging the native people.  He’d reveled in their lively worship style, this kid with the elastic hips and the bouncy

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Jul 25, 2011

Manifesto of Joy

Job stress, family issues, cracks in the budget, and a mower that breaks.  Drop by drop, the leak begins.  A rivulet forms, and then a river, rushing, raging, sweeping away

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Jul 22, 2011

Celebrated, just for “showing up”

What a day that was!  All that hoopla and warm wishes and friends popping into my virtual cubicle, cheerful faces shining, just because.  Just because 44 years ago yesterday, I

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Jul 19, 2011

It’s not the fickle finger – it’s ‘The Claw’ and that one leg

Odd, how The Claw turned the fellows in the rear into Olympic-caliber gymnasts.  Suddenly, they’d grow elastic extremities, doing the splits or pinning their feet up behind their ears in

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Jul 18, 2011

Life from behind my ‘I’s

If this were ‘B’ week, I’d remind you that I live in a nest of B’s.  As in boys – four of ’em plus their dad.  I’m awash in a sea of

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Jul 14, 2011

“Come, best friend”

“Come, best friend!” I heard Little shout over his shoulder to the boy at the park, and he disappeared in a flash of denim. After the muggy Indiana weather, we’d

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Jul 13, 2011

It’s those crazy hyenas again

Yesterday, a status happened through my news feed that cracked me up.  “Goodbye, shrub.  Hello, teenager with very fragile, tenuous cell phone privileges,” it said.  I could only guess what had happened. 

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Jul 12, 2011

It’s not a perfect family portrait, but it’s sure a good one

For the first time, we were able to introduce the southern siblings to the event they’d heard so much about.  With Mom and Dad Yoder joining us and Mom’s aunt

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