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Celebrating 18 Months of Judson | annasjoy
https://annasjoy.com/2015/06/27/celebrating-18-months-of-judson
Celebrating 18 Months of Judson. June 27, 2015. June 27, 2015. Judson is 18 months old today. Marker face and busted lip, my heart is always with him even though apparently my eyes aren’t always on him! I have some words that need to be used about him today, so thanks for obliging me. I have one picture of him hanging on the wall in our house. Well, two if you count the one of him in my belly. (I know, it doesn’t count. #hangshead). Then, Judson was born. Yesterday. Or so. He quickly preferred his thumb ...
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A letter to my children on the occasion of their partial abandonment | annasjoy
https://annasjoy.com/2015/07/31/a-letter-to-my-children-on-the-occasion-of-their-partial-abandonment
A letter to my children on the occasion of their partial abandonment. July 31, 2015. July 31, 2015. Dear Ayla and Judson,. I dressed you in “resort wear” today as a pathetic attempt at subliminally messaging you that we were going on vacation. And by “we” I mean me and Daddy. You are staying here. You might feel a little scared or sad when you wake up in the morning and we’re not here, but your Grandma is here and she will take perfect care of you. You are so loved. Not just by us, but by your vast exten...
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Even the Sparrows | annasjoy
https://annasjoy.com/2015/04/29/even-the-sparrows
April 29, 2015. April 29, 2015. For those who know Ayla and her life-long friend, Gato, you may have read in yesterday’s post about her favorite animal having been lost for three days and known the grief she must have been feeling. I have put more hours looking for that cat than I can count, run up and down miles of stairs to make sure she’s in the arms of the girl I love, broken up hundreds of fights between friends who all want Gato (out of all the animals in the basket! Running towards the heartbreak.