In the LDS culture children are baptized at the age of 8.  When Mormons baptize someone, it’s by full immersion.  If even your hair rises to the top, they dunk you again. I was baptized in the Mediterranean Sea while my family was living in Turkey.  On the third time I was finally relaxed enough… [Continue Reading]

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I really can’t be the only one who looks our her window at her garden and feels her heart yearn for Spring, can I? There won’t be as many pumpkins this year. There will be many more types of greens….mustard greens, kale, and the like. Greens and carrots are good for the lungs. Especially the… [Continue Reading]

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My g-tube enhanced Brave Hero has done so well on the blenderized diet I prepare for him daily. He lost a significant amount of weight from being sick so many times this season, but we are back up 2 pounds…..two more to go before we are back to his baseline! I use this for Parker’s… [Continue Reading]

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It happened.  Finally.  It snowed.  Snow.  Finally Not so much as to be a hassle.  Not too little to notice. Just enough. Snow used to be a sensory nightmare for a certain Brave Hero. It’s better now. Except that gloves aren’t tolerated. Even if hands are cold to the verge of frozen. Instead my littlest… [Continue Reading]

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Sometimes the once upon a time me sneaks up and reminds the me in the present of goals set and dreams  once dreamt.   She reminds me that debt and doctors and pulmonary hypertension were never supposed to be part of our future, and that when my kids finally reached they age they have I… [Continue Reading]

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