tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52036910599998648252024-03-18T21:59:37.834-07:00Big A, Little A, and Momma ChaeMomma Chaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00665819920508553549noreply@blogger.comBlogger333125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203691059999864825.post-28916190571881024172015-03-27T13:26:00.001-07:002015-03-27T13:26:36.374-07:00Tourette's Syndrome <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">I’ve been given a new diagnosis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Actually, my daughter was given a diagnosis. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Being a mom, though, means that this diagnosis is actually <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">my</i> world now. This diagnosis will be
researched, feared, reviled, loved, and ultimately <em>owned</em> by me. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because I’m a mom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And my imperfect self loves in a perfect and
unconditional ferocity this girl that I gave birth to eight years ago. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">So I researched.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">I read about the statistics, famous individuals with the
same diagnosis, and joined the support groups and newsletters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">I read about the natural remedies and holistic approaches. I
bought essential oils, made terra cotta diffusers, found glass roller bottles,
droppers, fractionated coconut oil, Epsom salts, magnesium supplements, and
made potions with drops of ingredients I’d previously only associated with the
Nativity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I lovingly created these treatments,
anointing my baby’s flawless skin with antique hopes and prayers, as mothers
have done for thousands of years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">I feared.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">I imagined the worst.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I envisioned the tears on her face, the peers who may be unkind, and the
future broken hearts she may experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I imagined her being ostracized, ridiculed, and left out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After reading about anxiety, depression, and
emotional highs and lows, I feared a future that would hurt her and bring her
to those places in her soul where even her Momma might not be able to shine a
light and help her find her way out. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">And I reviled.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">I hated this diagnosis and how it seemed to be an attack on
my strong and vibrant daughter. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hated
that tics will follow her emotions, twisting and contorting her features with
every stressful thought or rush of adrenaline, making her want to hide her face
from the world, her emotions naked before all in her presence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hated how there was nothing to fight, no
enemy to drive away for relief. I hated how she has no choice and no
control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After telling her so many times
that only she is the master of her body, in an effort to raise a little girl
free from the notion that she needs to please others with beauty, physical
touch, or by succumbing to societal pressures, it turns out that I was wrong.
She doesn’t have full control of her body. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">But then I loved. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">I loved it because this is a part of her, and therefore I
must love it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I loved it because I
can see her being an <span style="color: #e06666;">instrument of awareness</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A beacon of <span style="color: #e69138;">information and acceptance</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>An intelligent and lovely <span style="color: #6fa8dc;">spokesperson</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A <span style="color: #8e7cc3;">fighter</span>. An<span style="color: red;"> advocate</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A <span style="color: blue;">strong
voice</span> in a world that sometimes needs strong voices to drown out ignorance. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><strong><em>She will shine. She will conquer. She will thrive</em></strong>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">She will
do beautiful things with her life, and this diagnosis will only refine her,
make her more compassionate, more intentional, and more tenacious. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">And because I’m the Mom, I will <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">own</i> this diagnosis. I will have Tourette’s with her. I will walk with
her and feel the pain, experience the sadness, and brush it off like a champion
– by her side. I will grow in this diagnosis, educate, advocate, and be proud
of this diagnosis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">I will Love her. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Everything will change…..But Nothing will change. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><em><strong>The road stretches out before her and I can see that it’s full
of adventure…<o:p></o:p></strong></em></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><em>Before I was a mom, when I wanted to succeed at something, I
always knew what to do. You do the research, or you put in the miles, or you
buy all the latest equipment and put on your game face and Go For It.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><em>I wrote lists, posted goals, stayed up all night, read,
memorized, struggled, and persevered –and it always led to the finish line, to
the degree, the long term goal, or the job that I had in my sights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Goal setting was something I did that would
reliably get me where I wanted to go.<o:p></o:p></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><em><strong>It turns out that being a parent doesn’t work this way.</strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><em>It turns out that you can take all the birth classes, eat
the rainbow of foods and take the prenatal vitamins. You can breast feed,
attachment parent, and use BPA free products.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You can research and love and provide like a champion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><em>You can make sure you child is never hot, or cold, hungry,
or exposed to too much sun or screen time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You can teach them to read, to write, to think and create. You can have
a mental check list of all the things a good parent does, and try your very
hardest to cross off the list like it’s magically going to lead to parenting sainthood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><em>But, as all veteran parents are sure to know, parenting
doesn’t work like that. <o:p></o:p></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><em>As we weather the first of many future parenting storms, I
look around and hope that it’s all “normal” and “ok” and that all my struggles
with my children are not foreshadowing of scarier problems to come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><em>Because it turns out that you can’t prepare for or prevent
hardships that touch your childrens’ lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No amount of teachable moments or baby-wearing, green smoothies or fluoride
or even the most Pinteresty of birthday parties can prevent your child from
experiencing life just like we all did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Life
is hard.<o:p></o:p></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><em><strong>And isn’t that a crappy lesson to learn?<o:p></o:p></strong></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><em>In fact, I almost take it personally when my daughter has a “nervous”
tic when she reads.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I set up the eye appointment,
I irrationally start to wonder, “Was it something I did? Did I do something
wrong?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if not, was it something I
passed along to her through my own predisposition to worry / read too much /
tense my muscles in my neck….” etc, etc, etc. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><em>The same goes for her decalcified molars from a genetic
condition, her geographic tongue, and her tendency to have trouble falling
asleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it all my fault? Was there
any way to prevent it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Probably not. But
I’m a mom, so of course I have to ask myself.<o:p></o:p></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><em>I was horrified last night when my daughter very matter of factly
informed me that she was ugly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I
asked her about this, she tells me that it’s a fact, that she’s uglier than her
friends. And then she starts to list a series of traits that make her ugly
compared to these other girls, which makes my heart cry and the tiny voice in
my head say mournfully that “it has begun.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><em>Because as I look at my gorgeous daughter and see perfection
and beauty and strength, I also see that she is now self-aware and doubting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As much as we have protected her, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">it has begun</b>. She wasn’t looking for
pity, or even asking for help. She just told me she was ugly and when I begged
to differ, while trying to work magic and also make her realize that <strong>looks don’t
matter,</strong> she had a very grown-up, almost cynical tone of voice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In an odd compliment of sorts, she said, “If
you want to see gorgeous, look in the mirror,” her voice sounding hard and
old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><em>So, what do you do about this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><em>And other than putting her in a bubble and spiriting her off
to live in the woods like fairies….<o:p></o:p></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><em>How do I protect her from this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Should I?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><em>The constant body love messages obviously didn’t to the
trick. The effort to hide my own insecurities failed to sink in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Attempts to send messages of skin deep beauty
may have been heard, but not loud enough to drown out what she hears from
society every day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><em>It feels like a big failure – being the mom of a girl who
can say such things about herself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I
guess that’s what being a mom is going to be like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s going to be heartbreaking. It’s going to
be difficult, and when they are teenagers, I’m sure there are times it will be
terrifying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ultimately, though, I wouldn’t
trade it for anything. <o:p></o:p></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are everything I
had hoped and more than I had dreamed.<o:p></o:p></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just hope the children
I’ve been blessed with can forgive me for not being the perfect mother I had
set out to be.<o:p></o:p></em></span></span></div>
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<br />Momma Chaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00665819920508553549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203691059999864825.post-20022732045046184472013-10-10T13:27:00.002-07:002013-10-10T13:27:17.822-07:00Revisiting myself
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Recently, out of the clear blue, I thought to myself how
very lucky I am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While I’m creeping
further from “young” and closer to “middle age,” and while I’m aware of the
sticky hands of mundane and practical things, I am a traveler in time,
ceaselessly visiting my most magical moments again and again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And this must be why God gives women daughters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Favorite books that occupied my elementary years are growing
tattered in my daughter’s hands, while the characters, lovely friends of my
youth, are making her acquaintance after slumbering for decades on book shelves
and memories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like the Velveteen Rabbit,
they are alive again, brought back from the brink by her love and
attention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">There are spunky fairies with pink hair and blue jeans,
pioneers with their long dresses and aprons, faithful native friends who make
bird calls outside our windows at night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are horses, and housekeepers, mysterious neighbors and friendly
bears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A wild family tree from my own
youthful psyche. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My beloved stuffed cheetah, shelved after I came of age, is
now pampered and cuddled and traveling once again, the companion of a child who
treats her like an aged queen – her importance to me lending her a regal
distinction in my daughter’s eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As she skips through the meadows and the mountains of her
daydreams, Addison journeys into my own and brings me along with her. How I’ve
missed these magical places and familiar faces, and how lucky I am to see them
again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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My daughter gives flesh to the theory of a cyclical existence. <br />
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While I remember, fondly, the nesting days when her heartbeat matched my own, gazing into her gorgeous and demanding eyes, I sometimes wish to cycle back, to hold her like an infant for another quiet afternoon.<br />
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I studied her every skin cell, knew the sounds she made in her sleep, and rarely spent time in a room separate from her presence. <br />
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She was imperious and loud when displeased, content as a cat when in our arms, always Awake, and Alive, <br />
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and <strong>Watching. </strong><br />
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And now, <br />
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Now that she’s a running and jumping and book-reading little girl, you would think that my baby would be lost and I would be so sad...<br />
So wistful. My arms so empty and wanting another. <br />
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But it turns out that we’ve merely taken a turn around the great circle – a first of many, I hope. <br />
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Because my daughter studies me. She knows everything about me. She rarely spends time in a room separate from my presence. <br />
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She will tuck my hair behind my ear and put her arm around my neck. She will declare her love for me when we are walking through the ferry terminal or driving to the grocery store. Without thinking, or planning, she leaves me feeling sugar-glazed in affection and devotion.<br />
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What a relief, and a thrill, that I will never outgrow being a mommy<br />
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<strong><em>and she will never outgrow being mine.</em></strong><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>I hope you don’t think you have to improve yourself.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>You are talented,</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>And beautiful.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>You have style,</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>You have charisma,</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>And you look cute in your jeans.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>You are a little Bellingham, </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>A lot Port Townsend,</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>With a dash of Suburban Seattle.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>You will gracefully grow old,</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>But remain youthful and fun,</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>A classy gal with kayak paddles</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>And a reader of blogs.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>You are You.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>Like sprinkles on a cupcake</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>And ocean glass in a jar.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>No one can take that away.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>You are a mother,</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>A sister,</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>A daughter</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>And a girlfriend.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>Endless and Ageless </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>-qualities that don’t fade.</em></span></div>
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November 5, 2012<br />
Dear Mr. President and First Lady Obama, <br />
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As the election approaches the final stretch, I am fairly certain you will remain in the White House for another term. As a Democrat, a Christian, and a woman, I hope I’m correct in this assumption, as I remain convinced that your plan for our nation is the one that perpetuates the most good. <br />
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While I have many of the popular issues in mind as I vote, I also have come to realize that I am still looking for a future where the issues closest to my heart can be recognized and dealt with; not merely on the national level, but in our global community. I write with the hope that I can place one of these issues on your hearts, so that as you decide how to create your personal legacy as the President or First Lady this final term, you might consider this issue worth tackling.<br />
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November is National Adoption Awareness Month. While our country remains fraught with our own struggles and concerns, we are still a nation that is able to provide so much for our own children. While imperfect, we seek to provide protection to our littlest, most vulnerable children, through a series of agencies, programs, and professionals. So much can be done to improve conditions for neglected and abandoned children on our own soil, but when one looks at the conditions in other countries around the globe, it quickly becomes clear that there is a horrifying and disgraceful international depravity concerning our neediest of orphans. <br />
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There are institutions where children are still warehoused in rows upon rows of beds, unable to move, and denied the simplest human bond. Children are drugged, restrained and starved. They live in cribs, banging their heads against the wall for self-stimulation, covered in bed sores from lack of movement and fresh clothing. There are six year olds weighing nine pounds and teenagers living like infants. <br />
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As a mother, and a teacher, this makes me sick with grief. How I wish I could go and hold these children and give them the love they have been denied! <br />
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I know there are many compassionate men and women who would feel the same way upon viewing the photographs and videos from these institutions. However, families who would open their homes to children in need are discouraged by exorbitant adoption fees and red tape. Many hopeful parents, whom could easily afford to care for a child, can’t afford to adopt the child. <br />
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I wish to someday see leaders around the globe call for a movement towards the greater good for all orphans. What can our leaders do to create and enforce transparency in the way each nation treats its unwanted children? How can our leaders communicate that our global community, though we have our differences, all agree on this one thing? Children need loving homes. <br />
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Millions of children are living in abysmal conditions around our world. What can our world leaders do to recognize these children, protect them, and pave the way for loving families to open their arms to them without going bankrupt and getting their hearts broken in the process? While I care about national debt, the economy, and, of course, education, they all pale in comparison to this very real tragedy unfolding all around us. When all is said and done, I feel that our nation, along with our leaders, should be judged by how effectively we respond to “the least” among us. If we are willing to step outside our borders in acts of war and conquest, I feel that we should also step out in love and compassion. <br />
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Best wishes to you and your lovely family as you embark on your second term. You have been examples of integrity and grace under fire. I admire how you are raising your daughters and particularly appreciate your model as I raise my own. <br />
Sincerely, <br />
Rachae xxxx xxxxxx<br />
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You'll Get a Melissa & Doug 25% Off Coupon** to use at MelissaAndDoug.com just for voting!<br /><br /><br /><p align="center"><a href="http://ww2.melissaanddoug.com/Holiday-2011/North-Poll-Toys-Promotion/vote-best-toys.php?blog=eddb904a6db773755d2857aacadb1cb0"><img style="WIDTH: 324px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5675275220853413634" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvUhaBh3zdwOQLbmEyJP2XUHFRQA5RTcBaz4S_VspA7mNmHzBJpg5BK-QZzT59eLuZKGZ8jP6hT_Q7O7CnmvbnR4UBbSIwJkLe_CUE-RfLbGg6h-K5DQw4UsJ2TAFN7U5NXMRq5Z21OBCX/s400/gdffgsd.bmp" /></a><br /></p><br /><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/53/52674B51BC8C40B08094B95A44C92607.png" /></a> </div>Momma Chaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00665819920508553549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203691059999864825.post-37611880830641272912011-10-27T08:31:00.001-07:002011-10-27T08:31:49.947-07:00Mothers' WorkLoving<a href="http://www.aholyexperience.com/2008/12/mothers-work-model-for-true-work/"> this.</a><br /><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/53/52674B51BC8C40B08094B95A44C92607.png" /></a>Momma Chaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00665819920508553549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203691059999864825.post-65069104949687489222011-10-10T14:55:00.000-07:002011-10-10T15:05:29.177-07:00BFFs<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6hAPBgCvlprfFSQGM5jIHGCLI0KfHwpFv3pnL_fMthqR_FE_7wECdyJq1WfkpcffMMw_GjjUSBVdBfAX0erSQekKh3iLe1IYJpbSFJoRNfZBLw7MIrnZnBqzb1h2BCZ6mZ0hoYMLJfw-V/s1600/girls2.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 267px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661987910916056946" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6hAPBgCvlprfFSQGM5jIHGCLI0KfHwpFv3pnL_fMthqR_FE_7wECdyJq1WfkpcffMMw_GjjUSBVdBfAX0erSQekKh3iLe1IYJpbSFJoRNfZBLw7MIrnZnBqzb1h2BCZ6mZ0hoYMLJfw-V/s400/girls2.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1ijuOqJ4nArXzZkO2hsNfJZ714c8XcwZA3Kg5g8dMW4gtD4IUAWyVluRoty090z5aRl1e0Bf7Ljp9uM9YkcUnMIsTd7jyNIkGK24CO4KUnZiMWYD1_w_VNTygtzijVF_Eb1eH0nyXzK88/s1600/girls1.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661987907724336194" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1ijuOqJ4nArXzZkO2hsNfJZ714c8XcwZA3Kg5g8dMW4gtD4IUAWyVluRoty090z5aRl1e0Bf7Ljp9uM9YkcUnMIsTd7jyNIkGK24CO4KUnZiMWYD1_w_VNTygtzijVF_Eb1eH0nyXzK88/s400/girls1.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/53/52674B51BC8C40B08094B95A44C92607.png" /></a></div></div>Momma Chaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00665819920508553549noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203691059999864825.post-80598770043320437512011-10-07T12:56:00.000-07:002011-10-07T13:01:02.548-07:00Alignment<p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX_C9ciGvEXCOQrbXqdkhyJMFLGK-oM_S_L4hh3uuUc-NtXMwp4zrA9Bt1qfLGk-L1-GcteCsgxDjeWB7bhJKx6oZNyvSWmmUfYACoAOaVuKQfvs-I_UjCP7_6Q55SlvuQOvuWzsZAirZC/s1600/DSCN5114_edited-1.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5660842167334085138" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX_C9ciGvEXCOQrbXqdkhyJMFLGK-oM_S_L4hh3uuUc-NtXMwp4zrA9Bt1qfLGk-L1-GcteCsgxDjeWB7bhJKx6oZNyvSWmmUfYACoAOaVuKQfvs-I_UjCP7_6Q55SlvuQOvuWzsZAirZC/s400/DSCN5114_edited-1.jpg" /></a></p><br /><p align="center">Hello. Is there anyone out there? This has been, and continues to be, the most solid writers’ block I’ve ever experienced. What could be the cause? The last time I had a writers’ block, I was in my early 20s…. and at a crossroads in my life. Perhaps I’m at one of those transitions now. Perhaps it’s a “once a decade” kind of affliction, ehh?<br />In my early 20s I was going through a crisis of sorts. It was emotional, physical, and spiritual. I was afraid that all the most precious things I had dreamed of were going to end up a pile of rubble. It was only after throwing myself out in the world, meeting a bunch of new people, and exhausting myself on behalf of others that I experienced the most profound healing journey I’d ever known. Oddly, the epiphany I experienced was also described in a book that I finally just read: “Eat, Pray, Love.” While I’m firmly Christian in my beliefs, I found the book to have many cross-cultural relevancies that are inspiring and delicious in nature. The author seeks to find her own healing and finally does so in a manner similar to my own. It goes something like this: If I was so lonely, so heartbroken, and so scared, it mostly came down to love, or the lack thereof. I was so horrified that my life would be barren, both physically and emotionally, that I was frozen in grief. What finally came to me, during a quiet and solitary night, was the idea that <strong><em>I</em></strong> was responsible for 50% of my loss. I may not have love coming in my direction, but the love flowing from my own actions was completely up to me. I could choose to love. I could choose to throw my love out to the universe and not expect any of it to bounce back at me. Just the giving would be a joyful act and a reason to keep on going. So I did. I fell in love multiple times every day. I loved my volunteer work. I loved the crazy folks I met there and the broken and abused animals that I helped piece together. I loved the dirty, sweaty work and the physical challenges. I fell in love with my home and the process of doing my daily chores. When my work became a kind of prayer, I ended up having a home so tidy and clean that I could never hope to duplicate the same standard these days. I loved my job, my coworkers, and my students. I loved to coach, getting to know the families and teenagers as they worked towards their personal goals and self-confidence. I poured love upon my pets and the feral cat colony I cared for at a nearby park. I loved to exercise, to grocery shop, to curl up with a good book, and to sit down to a favorite TV show. Every day was a little love story. <strong>I was happy. And I healed.<br /></strong>Now, 31, I think I’m going through another transition. This time, I think I’m simply growing up. Although it is invisible, and would be surprising to those closest to me, this year has been about alignment. It’s been about aligning my greatest priorities with my actions. It’s been about <strong>giving</strong> a little more. It’s been about <strong>forgiving</strong> myself for all those traits I dislike most. It’s been about <strong>appreciation</strong> and <strong>warmth</strong> and about <strong>being a woman</strong>. As subtle as it has been, it has also been about <strong>growth </strong>and about keeping my path steady and sure, even when so many things seem to knock me off course. I’ve learned that most of these come naturally and easily. Forgiveness, however, takes an almost constant meditation. So many moments of the day I have to forgive myself. For not being thin, for not being more successful, for not being more artistic, or smart, or funny, or confident. <em>I continually have to forgive myself for standards that I would never dream of imposing on another woman.</em> <em>I </em>love women who are comfortable in their own skin. <em>I</em> prefer women of great substance, bold flavors, and vibrancy. I love women who are cerebral, feisty, and ferocious. I love a woman who can laugh loudly, strut proudly, and give of herself extravagantly. I see this woman emerging in my daughter, and I fall more in love with her everyday because of it.<br />So, my absence from the written word seems to be due to a <em>preoccupation with <strong>living</strong></em><strong>.</strong> I have been embracing the everyday absurdities, the tiny triumphs of parenting, and the memories I’ve been making for my little family. Sticking dinner in a crockpot becomes an act of love. Teaching a boy how to tie his shoe is a reason to celebrate. Cleaning a closet is a laughable moment of motherhood. Throwing love out to the universe, and getting so much back in return, is helping me align myself. I feel aligned with other women, with all of creation, and with my God. And for this, I am thankful. <strong>In all of this living, I'm learning to live with myself.<br /><br /></strong><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/53/52674B51BC8C40B08094B95A44C92607.png" /></a> </p>Momma Chaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00665819920508553549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203691059999864825.post-68874707370652163802011-08-23T14:49:00.001-07:002013-01-23T13:30:33.856-08:00Some of Our Summer<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9U2VXRBkHEtuOuUwLbDBS1e5GzgYkRO9LXAX8vDug75uyzRmYXQtU0nUS51VWvs06ewf34UhWg_Dz8ENDcvqAoBS1LbHUaD57jpClOdXivlxCUAn43WUWjPUi-DxsKpkc5DWvRk7h3DdE/s1600/P3150144.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644178448166207586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9U2VXRBkHEtuOuUwLbDBS1e5GzgYkRO9LXAX8vDug75uyzRmYXQtU0nUS51VWvs06ewf34UhWg_Dz8ENDcvqAoBS1LbHUaD57jpClOdXivlxCUAn43WUWjPUi-DxsKpkc5DWvRk7h3DdE/s400/P3150144.JPG" style="cursor: hand; height: 300px; width: 400px;" /></a> <br />
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<br />Momma Chaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00665819920508553549noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203691059999864825.post-52503597615875757562011-05-26T09:45:00.000-07:002011-06-01T06:53:25.352-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><em><span style="color:#339999;"><strong>There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.<br />~Robert Brault</strong><br /></span></em></span><br /><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/53/52674B51BC8C40B08094B95A44C92607.png" /></a>Momma Chaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00665819920508553549noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203691059999864825.post-18573830516510249112011-05-15T14:24:00.001-07:002011-05-15T14:27:54.402-07:00Ok, So the Sunshine Didn't Last Long,<div align="center">But that didn't stop us....</div><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDaXlcdiUDttjvQq1-ck4beYbz21wFoEMBJb_6WiImEBCl__m7om9HB7U7FysZhfQ8ljpBRgF5ASnyS2wJBbWKpEznGfyxCl7wMINDykKvDnmVi751kUMKV7JpxxukIwYaP150YTkgAzGz/s1600/DSCN4775.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; 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HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606644261146825010" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinoQ9FpGOdqg3KEBpiO4hXnEfZ09iR9_24EcwgIn5fdWCh8Qj7NIWqY1BeKhq623OriTP4ouDJiGBprpeiX6nPkRyluHuzU7MloOAHvUAbTYt7-6XQslvHark2lsAeqa59VWeFyKGQ9yKM/s400/DSCN4755.JPG" /></a><br />Back on Addison's birthday:<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJzLl8myo-KrUSiEcC_ErPGG3-ZpZvlwXtqMXel3S0tv4dMhK1AlvN1pmx9i8v6Xaqd4SRrFOnZjTAd8mxSt4maH3N56LT5AcfGaOQfQFdEGZZFhzty6ef4CkVBUqEr4ISKb2EG1o4susO/s1600/DSCN4731.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606644255912299010" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJzLl8myo-KrUSiEcC_ErPGG3-ZpZvlwXtqMXel3S0tv4dMhK1AlvN1pmx9i8v6Xaqd4SRrFOnZjTAd8mxSt4maH3N56LT5AcfGaOQfQFdEGZZFhzty6ef4CkVBUqEr4ISKb2EG1o4susO/s400/DSCN4731.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXH96kxtRv4NC1Jc_TWLOzlERpfG2jPCjQmBYoVYURDL0NJCGvIds3crCvACcujCCUl-FG94ppyLCoWmC8EEPRYDiq58eksMPS9wZ2y-DP4uR2WePG0zhyphenhypheng-mSlIvLvQSi9rgGRlRWFTpi/s1600/DSCN4735.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606644251245947170" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXH96kxtRv4NC1Jc_TWLOzlERpfG2jPCjQmBYoVYURDL0NJCGvIds3crCvACcujCCUl-FG94ppyLCoWmC8EEPRYDiq58eksMPS9wZ2y-DP4uR2WePG0zhyphenhypheng-mSlIvLvQSi9rgGRlRWFTpi/s400/DSCN4735.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC29WFKCm98hl_5tmw-RqCzz5bzOGsHt-G2I1_10buT-34nxtRz0Co6WGPDZ2R0i_1I1p80M-DWvdc0DMc8M3vJyNsCYpOE5n0A4bkdLfHSizDihh2Ye8mtMKhi1ioBmPqu6q7p3hQuPna/s1600/DSCN4739.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606644245584137122" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC29WFKCm98hl_5tmw-RqCzz5bzOGsHt-G2I1_10buT-34nxtRz0Co6WGPDZ2R0i_1I1p80M-DWvdc0DMc8M3vJyNsCYpOE5n0A4bkdLfHSizDihh2Ye8mtMKhi1ioBmPqu6q7p3hQuPna/s400/DSCN4739.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/53/52674B51BC8C40B08094B95A44C92607.png" /></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Momma Chaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00665819920508553549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203691059999864825.post-9899477198673169092011-05-13T11:38:00.001-07:002011-05-13T11:44:19.664-07:00I'm Just Saying....<div align="center">You Have to See This Movie. </div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center">Beautiful scenes of compassion during hardship and great examples of integrity among men and women. </div><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ZbC8gTEakS1UXBUDI_y1vour6MU6TuoTmoQ-QhogARUiMWi_uneO2k9DbtyjqmcLRCZ8MVkm5EnT1sFpu_wjpO3kD-gJ9WrtAul51K0xLlGYHiUBiBXgcPwL8yQ6TWXlePwN1woxrFLS/s1600/images.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 117px; HEIGHT: 166px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606272208147782594" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ZbC8gTEakS1UXBUDI_y1vour6MU6TuoTmoQ-QhogARUiMWi_uneO2k9DbtyjqmcLRCZ8MVkm5EnT1sFpu_wjpO3kD-gJ9WrtAul51K0xLlGYHiUBiBXgcPwL8yQ6TWXlePwN1woxrFLS/s400/images.jpg" /></a><br /></div><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivNfk-rBWKVwCzZvoAuTDB0tJgGkFnsXeq3aA4rJa47xlD2NzQfa2WpRRx1l2N91UPSgnLcHN2col3ev1xK5opGDVkrdxC8p4wy6p_3DcO5ia4z_m1bB5KLAWU2WFJGa7XCsN2SA4en3oC/s1600/gdfgadf.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 201px; HEIGHT: 130px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606272143091498962" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivNfk-rBWKVwCzZvoAuTDB0tJgGkFnsXeq3aA4rJa47xlD2NzQfa2WpRRx1l2N91UPSgnLcHN2col3ev1xK5opGDVkrdxC8p4wy6p_3DcO5ia4z_m1bB5KLAWU2WFJGa7XCsN2SA4en3oC/s400/gdfgadf.jpg" /></a><br /></div><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSPuxwCE9IVxbYHF8TPKH8WX3M505LUm29BKbxL4-KeNxrEkLSlIklJHqDC3HCiZ8lU3ywZWH-VKWbHrs3vo_fg5cy_jSRrDNNZuI3xbZTHmRr2Cwn1Gaczy2F-bfq321RNzXzOzZZ3oc-/s1600/gh.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 317px; 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HEIGHT: 131px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606272131494197506" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMNj-FD2DqX8SFS0lNDTGW6gX40_zwsJVG6Pq7k6w0_HK8bnOPFwTTtpPCXzeO2Qs_I1PD0gS-6PGI-YakkhxHbvpKV0Mbfjzi7DqEUv7oDpoGt0bd4F8TTPjoOcqpRMGomTjmlriU9-od/s400/imagesCADUBAI3.jpg" /></a><br /></div><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-PRJo_hoF3uAmUX7h7W490wnY7FzJ7rtsH3Y0HlbNXPCSGpsckivdMx8gk5z-Bc_Xwe7LfbZMEP8cmOIGZpjuO74vRAhN_6_Cz_S5a-P8n12NKuUs8fRheRIouyCTEeYAR0dXuhRrgjL4/s1600/imagesCAOOYDAI.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 276px; HEIGHT: 183px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606272128022298690" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-PRJo_hoF3uAmUX7h7W490wnY7FzJ7rtsH3Y0HlbNXPCSGpsckivdMx8gk5z-Bc_Xwe7LfbZMEP8cmOIGZpjuO74vRAhN_6_Cz_S5a-P8n12NKuUs8fRheRIouyCTEeYAR0dXuhRrgjL4/s400/imagesCAOOYDAI.jpg" /></a><br /></div><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/53/52674B51BC8C40B08094B95A44C92607.png" /></a></div>Momma Chaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00665819920508553549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203691059999864825.post-62794815142120553762011-05-10T13:08:00.000-07:002011-05-10T13:10:39.228-07:00Marge Piercy - A New Love of Mine<strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><em>To Be of Use<br /></em><br /></span></strong>The people I love the best<br />jump into work head first<br />without dallying in the shallows<br />and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.<br />They seem to become natives of that element,<br />the black sleek heads of seals<br />bouncing like half-submerged balls.<br /><br />I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,<br />who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience,<br />who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,<br />who do what has to be done, again and again.<br /><br />I want to be with people who submerge<br />in the task, who go into the fields to harvest<br />and work in a row and pass the bags along,<br />who are not parlor generals and field deserters<br />but move in a common rhythm<br />when the food must come in or the fire be put out.<br /><br />The work of the world is common as mud.<br />Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.<br />But the thing worth doing well done<br />has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.<br />Greek amphoras for wine or oil,<br />Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums<br />but you know they were made to be used.<br />The pitcher cries for water to carry<br />and a person for work that is real.<br /><br /><strong>Marge Piercy</strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><em><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The Woman in the Ordinary<br /></span></strong></em><br />The woman in the ordinary pudgy downcast girl<br />is crouching with eyes and muscles clenched.<br />Round and pebble smooth she effaces herself<br />under ripples of conversation and debate.<br />The woman in the block of ivory soap<br />has massive thighs that neigh,<br />great breasts that blare and strong arms that trumpet.<br />The woman of the golden fleece<br />laughs uproariously from the belly<br />inside the girl who imitates<br />a Christmas card virgin with glued hands,<br />who fishes for herself in other's eyes,<br />who stoops and creeps to make herself smaller.<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><em>In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry,<br />a yam of a woman of butter and brass,<br />compounded of acid and sweet like a pineapple,<br />like a hand grenade set to explode,<br />like goldenrod ready to bloom.<br /></em></span><br /><br /><strong>Marge Piercy </strong><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/53/52674B51BC8C40B08094B95A44C92607.png" /></a>Momma Chaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00665819920508553549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203691059999864825.post-72750753348063673072011-05-04T19:49:00.000-07:002011-05-04T20:16:11.155-07:00Is it Odd...that THIS is my daughter's favorite song? <br />Is it strange that she know every word and begs to listen to it soooo often that I had to give her a "once a day" limit? <br /><br /><iframe width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3KkUeRPjc-Y" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Ok, so it might be weird. She IS only 4. But isn't she downright COOL?! <br /><br />Other current Addison Favorites: <br /><br /><iframe width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rYEDA3JcQqw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><iframe width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/LjhCEhWiKXk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><iframe width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Bzn9JnJbfUo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />And both kids are nuts about this:<br /><br /><iframe width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lvmbPcotSfY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Family Dance Parties and tuneless singing are known to spontaneously break out in our household... and that is AWESOME, to say the least. My kids ROCK.<br /><br />I had noticed that Addison seems to choose songs based on the lyrics and the mood behind them. She prefers songs about love, hope, and freedom. She likes her ladies to have full-bodied voices and her men to have sweetness and poetry. When I asked her if she even knew what "free" meant, as she loves to sing that word at the top of her lungs, she was silent for a bit, and then she said, "Well, it means that you get out of something you were stuck in...." (and with that, the little twinge in my gut that tells me I have a smart and challenging little soul in my care started to act up on me.)<br /><br />Aidan is a bit more traditionally "young male" in his musical taste. He likes anything he can rock out to, preferably with a bit of air guitar and a false look of angst on his face. I imagine years of hard core teenage-monitoring in my future, because this boy can shake his hips and has the long eyelashes and dashing good looks that will be a magnet for the gals as he grows older. (well, as long as his dance skills improve moderately and he stops wearing superman capes, that is....) <br /><br /><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/53/52674B51BC8C40B08094B95A44C92607.png" /></a>Momma Chaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00665819920508553549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203691059999864825.post-64150510729870491202011-05-04T19:25:00.000-07:002011-05-04T19:44:05.239-07:00Four<div align="center">Much to my horror, Addison wanted a Princess Picnic when she turned 4.</div><br /><div align="center">Being one of the most awesome moms / suckers in the world, I <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">accommodated</span> her.</div><br /><div align="center">I rented a pagoda over the water at a nearby salty marina and set about making a magical day for my little girl.</div><br /><div align="center">The look on her face when she arrived in all her finery = Priceless.</div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center">(jewels and planted seashells from our treasure hunt on the beach.)</div><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCG9BDFfMnsD0jjUqbbhQvet0IWTgX6XSgbQh_LVm8-7jYHzAZYjj0zSriG72Kk8d2eII1Bhu9O7iRnoHzRKkvBlfH_tM3drmX_58CtADTT2668KO-EZnuC7qEP3WZ60KyDlx8TN_pQYA5/s1600/party43.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; 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HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603052811913969650" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnu_3_rpPek74Y-KeZuQl_XW27ghMuEXmGWTp_CdYgqrR-7tzn2zWUQxEfrpW1TBYDHFVkYs4O4cIt1SZrnPUoSxZtiiWV6YNURSHsXDiWzoiiz8_Th8eC6Mwturrqn03HCovzwImIVDXT/s400/party1.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/53/52674B51BC8C40B08094B95A44C92607.png" /></a></div>Momma Chaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00665819920508553549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203691059999864825.post-28650001696139120772011-04-23T18:24:00.001-07:002011-04-23T18:47:04.179-07:00One More Day<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0i-wupPJZIk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />I've heard the Trinity explained in so many ways over the years, and I've wrapped my mind around the concept as well as any average person could. What really made an impact on me, though, was a simple act of God in my own life. <br /><br />Now that I'm a mom, seeing my Savior as someone's Son makes me see the sacrifice in a whole new light. The crucifiction seems more horrific, more personal, and more beautiful. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/53/52674B51BC8C40B08094B95A44C92607.png" /></a>Momma Chaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00665819920508553549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203691059999864825.post-44124398281884397352011-03-21T11:11:00.000-07:002011-03-21T11:12:24.594-07:00New Car Seat Installation StandardsNew Car Seat Safety Information : <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/03/21/car.seat.guidelines.parenting/index.html?hpt=T2">HERE<br /><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/53/52674B51BC8C40B08094B95A44C92607.png" /></a>Momma Chaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00665819920508553549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203691059999864825.post-6619725574132175642011-03-19T17:23:00.001-07:002011-03-19T18:18:25.769-07:00sixThe Athletes started to arrive.....<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8e4vHKIO486MzKSFsJkP30QjJIuHIX9tcXrHhx9f04rb203S0XgXP7cFdBWJAbr-OmJtS1Fv0HyH_bmckQ3V_a4PrTpE3r7c4iHP1mba4DMfSdEAvo6z5jOZVMjDpu_cql-FL5m839hhI/s1600/DSCN3630.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 300px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585960824038941954" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8e4vHKIO486MzKSFsJkP30QjJIuHIX9tcXrHhx9f04rb203S0XgXP7cFdBWJAbr-OmJtS1Fv0HyH_bmckQ3V_a4PrTpE3r7c4iHP1mba4DMfSdEAvo6z5jOZVMjDpu_cql-FL5m839hhI/s400/DSCN3630.JPG" /></a><br /><div>They were intense....</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ3BEbp1NTADHaBOkmPW5sDMUHbUh-90Hcb03rvPDzIih7IEIoGy_jb4ml_I3AUPByW9m7eGLuKO7_-NznARNSUWnbAI8mj9gVSBW2YKf0f75AOzenVp3-6scCiVI9KIQVE6ccR3OuUpMv/s1600/DSCN3629.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 300px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585960816097110002" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ3BEbp1NTADHaBOkmPW5sDMUHbUh-90Hcb03rvPDzIih7IEIoGy_jb4ml_I3AUPByW9m7eGLuKO7_-NznARNSUWnbAI8mj9gVSBW2YKf0f75AOzenVp3-6scCiVI9KIQVE6ccR3OuUpMv/s400/DSCN3629.JPG" /></a><br />They were confused.....<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheXluEwzyJYV5tKwbDefE-9z8bPOe8PeK9hXUSTrvS8SWrMrhx_BH6IwO_sQo3KdjbdRadmRuoo4lR7O_gqiNTQ5OOCdnbnMXGK41rbVuyumIQmfSx2qjWQ9QUfmLs6Em5QiM5BelG4sA1/s1600/DSCN3626.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 300px; 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HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585952751052321202" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHT2hanyf4cUoV_xLXw8QJ4nQf3Fj52Z69uTD_Mc-_F8F4fqL1m5lXD7mRDk87As0tZiFSoqEKmE7qnpZPiG_k-IEVgGx5100Dn3g3hjX2N4Uo_arcVvfRx99F8Ff_MmbezmFDoB_bLzc1/s400/DSCN3588.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQtbX79RTVBmpreAag1e7wEvHXTM1AF5pnlrFiVh4GDqo23l-Nqs4HRUWMNwu_rG5vBb7B9V-Q5aNStdRDQI2DoyWFZytF3kVvJKDEoWqozn_C3kJHIkBFkXD-M1fVf7MvWTC4x_zoVEYT/s1600/DSCN3592.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585952743840413506" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQtbX79RTVBmpreAag1e7wEvHXTM1AF5pnlrFiVh4GDqo23l-Nqs4HRUWMNwu_rG5vBb7B9V-Q5aNStdRDQI2DoyWFZytF3kVvJKDEoWqozn_C3kJHIkBFkXD-M1fVf7MvWTC4x_zoVEYT/s400/DSCN3592.JPG" /></a><br /><br />It was Epic.</div><div> </div><div>I can safely say that everyone left tired.</div><div>And smiling :)<br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/53/52674B51BC8C40B08094B95A44C92607.png" /></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Momma Chaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00665819920508553549noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203691059999864825.post-32982287602901426732011-03-19T17:15:00.001-07:002011-03-19T17:21:52.588-07:00Lately<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj44-KZhhmzOtX69Dyzl7Y8MrkbTfswW2UXbfnd3RrnLbcDmQAwI89l6PjPRnef7jXbqTXnvX7i-hv_ekQ16wzI7QBLrSrQv4QzZ1BTGSj9bUSYzsETpmBopVCJqQ7Gi2dsDqPWglKoyd6L/s1600/DSCN4702.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 300px; 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BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/53/52674B51BC8C40B08094B95A44C92607.png" /></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Momma Chaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00665819920508553549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203691059999864825.post-46194819671268362162011-03-15T11:57:00.000-07:002011-03-15T12:01:37.313-07:00catching upAidan's 6th birthday party pics will soon follow! This year we had a TRACK MEET - that's right. Complete with a race, a long jump, a softball throw, and medals. It rocked. <br /><br />I am currently planning a Princess Picnic party as well. <br />March is a busy month for me...<br /><br />Some of the party pics can be seen on my sister's blog, <a href="http://growinggraesen.blogspot.com/2011/03/heading-home-and-track-meet-birthday.html">here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/53/52674B51BC8C40B08094B95A44C92607.png" /></a>Momma Chaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00665819920508553549noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203691059999864825.post-72098843763155644312011-03-15T11:41:00.001-07:002011-03-15T11:57:48.518-07:00Mother NatureWhile Addison and I were transferring 28 little plants to our patio flower pots this past Friday, we had a little taste of the blood thirsty side to Mother Nature.<br /><br />After weeks of torrential rains and wind, we (<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">ok</span> – <em><strong>I</strong></em>) had to have some color. I don’t care if they all get taken out by this grim weather - I <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">didn</span>’t want to wait another week before filling the flower pots with blooming plants. Lately, it’s been like we’re living in “Twilight,” or another movie set in or around Seattle. Usually the movies are too dramatic and they make our weather seem so much more dour than it really is. Not this year. This year, the movies have it right. Our land is past the saturation point. The yard is a puddle, the tree roots are in ground so sodden with precipitation that they periodically fall over, blocking roads and making a mess of branches to clean up. Class is interrupted as my students pause and look up every time the wind violently gusts and the pounding rains seem to shake the ceiling with sheer volume.<br />If you’re going to have rain, though, I’<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">ve</span> always preferred it to be <strong>dramatic </strong>rain. I mean, if you’re going to get wet and cold – you might as well get the whole shebang = thunder, lightning, and all.<br /><br />Anyways, Addison and I were out in the rain, planting some flowers. I was hurrying, because for once it was merely sprinkling rain – not pouring. My hands were covered in potting soil and I was rushing around with my little “helper” when we heard a horrible screaming from one of our neighbor chickens. After observing my lovely hens wandering through the property, my neighbors (the vampires mentioned previously) had gotten jealous and purchased 25 of their own. (a little competitive, don’t ya think?) My hens and their hens were running about, free-ranging, when this horrible scream made me jump. This <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">wasn</span>’t your usual chicken scream. This was a death scream. So, I took off running to the neighbor’s property with Addison jogging along behind me. I made it in the nick of time. A beautiful, beastly hawk had some hens pinned in a corner of a small lean-to on my neighbor’s property. She was jabbing at them as they tried to burrow themselves under an old rototiller. It was awful. I thought they were dead. As I ran towards them, the hawk finally flew away. I saw all these feathers and bodies under the blades of the rototiller, so I lifted it up, propped the handle on my shoulder and leaned down to pick up the first chicken I saw. She was one of the neighbor’s pretty white hens. When I touched her, she started to scream in fear until she turned her head and saw it was me. She then seemed to go limp with relief and snuggled closer to my body and I ran and put her safely in her coop. This is when the neighbor’s teenage daughter arrived to help. As she tried to gather the other scared hens, I went back to find my own two hens under the rototiller as well. The poor things were crammed under the blades with their bodies half buried in dirt. They were alive and unhurt.<br />The hawk then came back for more! With me standing right there! To make a long story short, that darn hawk came back over and over again and would sit and stare at me from the roof of the shed, or from a low tree branch as I scrambled to save the scared chickens. I had potting soil all over my hands, galoshes, frizzy, wet hair, and I was running around, waving my arms like a crazy lady to fend off the hawk. I found chickens who had crammed themselves in the most unlikely of places, but…. we <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">didn</span>’t lose a single one.<br />Ranger was let out to go on hawk duty, in the hopes that his running around the yard would prevent the hawk from doing any more dives at the chickens as I walked around looking for them.<br /><br />It was a real drama-<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">rama</span>. For the rest of the night, Addison kept asking, “Why do <em>hogs</em> want to eat my chickens?”<br /><br />As I watched the news coverage on the events in Japan, I realized that my own little brushes with Mother Nature have been so mild and inconsequential. If Seattle ever has the "Big One" that we're warned of, I can't imagine how tragic and terrifying it would be to try and locate family scattered by school and work during the business day. If I take my own panicked search for injured chickens, and apply it to a scenario involving my children ------ It becomes a scenario so grotesque that it's hard to even think about.<br />My heart hurts for all the parents frantically looking for their children.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/53/52674B51BC8C40B08094B95A44C92607.png" /></a>Momma Chaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00665819920508553549noreply@blogger.com1