This blog follows a teacher and her engineering husband as they transition from normal life to the world of medicine. It will be a medical miracle when we get there!
"My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours… it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known to each of us more powerfully and personally. If this is true, it means that to lose track of our stories is to be profoundly impoverished not only humanly but also spiritually." -Frederick Buechner (Telling Secrets)
"Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justice, now. Love tenderly, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it."
My husband, clean sheets, spray paint, warm baths, ice cream, naps, doggies, Kinder writing, fire pits, hair tutorials on YouTube, candles, baking, Subway oatmeal cookies, books, triathlons, camping, my girlfriends, singing, the pool, dancing, the tropics, my ratty girls, musicals, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen videos, church, Burgerville, strawberries, camping, baby names, Pottery barn duvet covers, wake boarding, freshly washed babies, my family, Etsy, Christmas, manatees, summer, vacations, democracy, movie nights, Bushwackers, the environment, luscious fabric, documentaries, rice crispy treats, and the freedom and resources to blog my life away...
Things My Dogs Have Eaten and Lived to Tell the Tail (get it? Tail/tale - hahahaha)
1. A 12 inch solid chocolate bunny 2. Three boxes of Samoa and Thin Mint Girl Scout cookies 3. Mice 4. Coffee beans (whole) 5. Slug bait 6. Light bulbs 7. Syringes 8. Whole bottle of aspirin 9. Huge bag of rat pellet food 10. A tennis ball 11. Multiple whole loaves of bread 12. Christmas ornaments 13. Brillo pads 14. My dead and buried fish Mr. Pickles 15. Green, dried deer poop that puffed green smoke when inhaled
Children's Books YOU HAVE TO HAVE. Period.
Ain't Gonna Paint No More; Mrs. McBloom, Clean Up Your Classroom!; The Recess Queen; Warthogs Paint; Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse; The Jolly Postman; The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear; Elbert's Bad Word; Caps For Sale; Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You See?; The Mitten; Amazing Grace; the Rainbow Fish; One (BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME); Zero; The Napping House; The Little Engine That Could; Chicka Chicka Boom Boom; Skin Again; The Kissing Hand; I'll Love You Forever; all the Magic School Bus books; American Girl series;
Dear Katie, I'm so sorry. I can't imagine what you must be feeling and going through right now. Can't imagine anything worse than losing your baby. Wild Thing will be greatly missed. You are in my thoughts and prayers. We love you guys very much. I hope your furry babies are there giving you lots of hugs and love too. Love, Aja
I am so very sorry. I know that I cannot possibly comprehend what you and your husband are going through right now, but if it is any comfort at all please know that y'all are in my thoughts and prayers.
Katie, Katie, Katie. I love you and Jason. I know you will make it through this. You will become a stronger and more amazing woman (if that is even possible). I am so sorry for your loss. Call me when you are ready to talk. You are both in my thoughts and prayers. I love you.
Katie, my heart goes out to you. Please know that I'm always here for you. You and Jason are in my prayers.
ReplyDeleteDear Katie,
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry. So, so, so sorry.
Love,
Ashley
Dear Katie,
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry. I can't imagine what you must be feeling and going through right now. Can't imagine anything worse than losing your baby. Wild Thing will be greatly missed. You are in my thoughts and prayers. We love you guys very much. I hope your furry babies are there giving you lots of hugs and love too.
Love,
Aja
Dear Katie,
ReplyDeleteI am so very sorry. I know that I cannot possibly comprehend what you and your husband are going through right now, but if it is any comfort at all please know that y'all are in my thoughts and prayers.
xo, Katherine Anne
Katie, Katie, Katie. I love you and Jason. I know you will make it through this. You will become a stronger and more amazing woman (if that is even possible). I am so sorry for your loss. Call me when you are ready to talk. You are both in my thoughts and prayers. I love you.
ReplyDeleteHow heartbreaking. I'm so sorry. You'll be in our prayers.
ReplyDeleteI'm really, really, really sorry. I don't even know what to say but know that we are praying for you guys.
ReplyDeletemuch love,
choach