Cold nights
Blankets
Winter veggies
Slippers
Soups and stews
Birthday
Half-birthday
Christmas presents
Autumn

puppy paw prints
cobwebs and dust 
full fridge
sweet treasures in wooden frames
towers of books
magazines and sticky notes
a house overwhelmed by living
a home

Holidays and Veggies

Christmas shopping in August
Baseball, baby and boyfriends
Presence and presents
107 ways to use tomatoes

8lbs. 3 oz. 20.5 inches

diapers, baths and giggles

a lion arrives, and lives are changed

a name waiting to be uttered

beginnings...and endings

maturing, finally

freedom of friends

ease of summer

days and months and years

at last

the graciousness of forgiveness
the surprise of blessedness laced in the sorrow
the simpleness of being
the ease of many years
the curious comfort of guilt
the chaos and moments of true peace, together
the finality of the night
the recognition of sympathy
the beauty of appreciation
the awkward knowledge of loss
the tenderness of urgency
the quiet wonderment of compromise
the familiar need and primal want for a mother's hug

MINIMAL!

the beautiful ease of just breathing

the simplicity and evenness of ten weeks

the gratifying sense of being well-cared-for

the nearness of Tuesday

the final frontier

the omnipresence of God

the flip-side of sick-and-tired