“Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own.” -Adam Lindsay Gordon It’s amazing how easily one can gauge kindness in another. Just observe their treatment of the restaurant server. Or the grocery bagger. How ’bout the toll collector? On the surface, kindness appears to be…
Grace for Hudson
Many of you know our youngest son Hudson was diagnosed with Down syndrome shortly after birth nearly five years ago. (Catch up here: Can’t Buy This .) At four, he struggles to communicate. He makes lots of conversational noises and syllables. We just can’t understand it. (Yet.) His vocabulary is limited to a few handfuls of words,…
Biggest Little Fan
Today was an ordinary day, like a lot of other Sundays around our house in the last few weeks. We went to church. And it snowed. In that order. Now that the Superbowl is history, we have one disappointed little football fan on Sunday afternoons. Hudson, is one of the guys. (He’s our youngest, has…
Can’t Buy This
Many moons ago, almost seventeen years now, a bouncing little baby arrived into the world, joined our family. We didn’t know pink or blue, but delighted to discover a baby boy in the delivery room. Can’t Buy This by allie taylor Fast forward several years. “We” are expecting again. (Nuthin’ “we” about it, folks.) My nervous…
