In our communities, we love with food. We deliver meals to celebrate births and to memorialize deaths. We gather with friends, sharing recipes and plates and love. Have you ever had a far-away friend dealing with a tough time, and you wish you could just step across the miles, appearing at the door with a […]
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I keep seeing articles regarding silly things husbands do or say when their wives are in labor. I think about my own husband, and his invaluable support during both of my pregnancies. One birth was induced; the other was a scheduled C-section. But my husband did get the chance to rush us to the hospital while I
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A large chunk of my life is — not exactly missing — but not all there, either. The five months I spent on bed rest are an odd blur of everything and nothing. They were hard months. This week someone dear to me is having surgery, and she mentioned she would look to me for
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Y’all. I have a new favorite gift for people on bed rest. Not that I know anybody on bed rest, but you never know. Anyway. NextIssue. Tons of magazines, including back issues. On your tablet. $10 a month. Normally I don’t find time to read my favorite magazines. But this service means that when I
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I feel like “Waiting” is the theme of my life these years, perhaps the theme of God’s carvings in my soul. I’m learning — slowly — to accept my powerlessness in certain situations and learning (still slowly) to surrender those situations to the One who is really in control. Waiting. A bed rest portrait by
This month I’m entering a new experience — parenting a 17-month old. Perhaps that is stating things a bit dramatically, but the wording feels right to me. When Ian turned 17 months old, I had just been put on bed rest. Up until then, he was my buddy. We would drive around East Nashville, running
Four months later, my bed rest experience is starting to feel very surreal. Did I really spend five months in bed all day? Even though the physical and psychological effects of bed rest are still with me, the experience itself is fading. Especially with the frenetic pace of life at the moment, days spent entirely
So my plan to bounce back from bed rest has become more like wandering aimlessly in a direction generally away from bed rest. I’m still attending hula hoop classes, which are mostly fun but occasionally discouraging when my muscles just won’t cooperate. We joined the Y last week, so I attended half a zumba class
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Well, it looks like Baby #2 is hanging in there until the last possible moment. I have a C-section scheduled for Monday morning. I must admit, I’m nervous to go back to “being a mom” again. Of course I never really stopped being a mom, but many of my mommy duties were assumed by my
The last few weeks of this pregnancy are turning out to be very frustrating. Not for any particular reason — happily, baby and I are very healthy. I’m just so restless. I was hoping to be set free from bed rest this past Monday, but no such luck. My doctor is out of town this
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