Small town girl with big world vision
It’s a surreal thing, holding a baby that has the nose of someone you love, and the chin of someone you love, and changes everything about the life of someone you love. I guess that what it means to be a grandmother. For one short week over Thanksgiving, I got to spend time with Sunshine…
It has been two months since we got the news that Peter Pan did not want to come to America on a student visa. Two months since Little Man and I decided that we needed to go to Latvia anyway because love shows up. Our hearts may have been breaking, but the only thing that…
It’s amazing how your whole world changes with a few words. “I’m pregnant. I need you.” “I’m not coming to America. I don’t need you.” Both these phrases have reframed my future and the future of the ones I love. It’s taken me a while to process what this means for all of us. The…
They have met. My parallel universes have collided. Sunshine and Peter Pan have joined forces and become the super-cool duo that could only be designed by Someone with a wonderful sense of humor. Last week, I was in their country for nine days working with New Horizons for Children—we were interviewing and selecting children for…
Sunshine is staying put in Latvia. I couldn’t be more content. Sprite is at this moment flying here to start his life in America. I couldn’t be more thrilled. It doesn’t make sense to others, I am sure, how these two events can live in parallel spaces in my heart and bring such joy. But…
I don’t know what time it is. I spent a week in Latvia with my family, and came back to the United States three days ago. My body wakes at odd hours. I am mad productive at five in the morning and dragging at five in the evening. I’ve given up the figuring. I live…
Welcome to the new home of my blog. I will be using this site from now on. I’m excited to start posting about the next leg of this adventure. I’m also now on Twitter. Follow me @Hexagonalpeg I will be leaving for Latvia in just under two weeks–it’s coming fast! I will be posting updates…
This is my 100th post. A hundred explanations of seeing my life change. A hundred times I have tried to parse out the ways I have found new mercies. New ways to love. New ways to count the innumerable. And in this post, I get to announce something very special. Something I never would have…
