Posts under ‘Having faith’

I’m only going to say this once: I’m totally legal, I’m a citizen! No one’s getting deported.  What we’re doing is getting DE-ported.
This post is about Peyton.
July 14, 2006 saw us here

Peyton looking petrified and me trying my best not to.  That was the bed that she laid in as they wheeled her away to [...]

Guess who’s going to be the owner of a beautiful Barbie Dream House (no, not the Barbie meth house) in Georgia??
Do you want to know?
Do you REALLY want to know?
So do we.
Contract FAIL.
NO no no, they didn’t reject it…we just don’t have an answer yet.
The seller’s broker’s dad went into the hospital…and while a [...]

Friday night, Peter and I dragged our tired, frustrated carcasses back into the apartment he keeps in Alabama.  An afternoon of scoping houses had turned futile and we found ourselves in a Mexican standoff.
I’d fallen in love with a gorgeous house full of natural light, sprawling open space and a kitchen to die for.
On a [...]

A cough in the middle of the night.
Followed by another.
Then a soft moan of discomfort.
That’s all it takes.
I’m transported to a night over two years ago when I woke up to hear Peyton crying in her sleep.
“I hurt, mommy.”
Those three words foreshadowed pain and sickness and disease.
I didn’t know it at the time.
It would be [...]

I had a whole post ready to go and I really did mean to write something funny and poignant about the holiday….but I left it hanging on my screen while the family went off to Christmas Eve service and to get all unwrap-y on some gifts….and now it’s gone.
GONE.
GONE GONE GONE.
*ARRRRG!*
I quit.
So, you get this [...]