Remember when we were just you-knows, just barely falling in love–more than dating, but not yet engaged– and we would email back and forth from California to Salem? I would sit at my parents’ computer desk all that excruciating summer, blushing deeply if they came into the room. I hung on every word you wrote. […]
Home (Oklahoma)
In Oklahoma there were no gutters on the eaves. The rain poured down the roofline and in sheets made deep trenches into the hard, red mud. The grass only sometimes grew over the trench, but when it did, we would forget the dip and twist our ankles as we stepped from the porch. The mud […]
Homecoming
He made it in time for Baby.
Whipped Cream on Top
I went to Starbucks tonight and was served by a long-haired, bushy-bearded man wearing a khaki pleated knee-length skirt, old-school Doc Martins, and 1990’s-style crew socks scrunched just so. These are the things that remind me I am no longer in Oklahoma. The boys and I went out to breakfast today. They crowed over their […]
Seasons of Grace
My husband has been gone for six months now. He wrote that in some ways it seems impossible that he’ll see me again– that I seem almost more a figment of his imagination–and I understand. After months and months of talking through keyboards and the occasional computer screen, it is very hard for me to […]
Halfway Through This Deployment
Tonight we enjoyed Thai food, strawberries, hot cocoa and a little bit of Filipino dancing. We’re halfway through this deployment, and it was time to celebrate. Besides marking the tipping point from which we now can move downhill, today also was the official start of my third trimester. It doesn’t always feel like we’re […]
Be My Yes and Amen
This is one of those days where I feel as if I cannot go on. It’s all so heavy, the burden so heavy. “Come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” I am weary and heavy laden, Lord. I feel as if I cannot go on. The […]
September Eleven
Never, as a 21 year old girl who knelt shaking before a quaking tv screen did I begin to imagine what those towers would mean to my life. And as they fell, I could never imagine the husband I had yet to meet would one day –12 years hence– put his boots on the dust of […]
What’s Going On With The Moores?
This is a catch-you-up-to-date post, because I am receiving a lot of loving questions about the State Of The Moores. My apologies that this is super long. At least read to the middle. It’s worth it. I promise! Where in the world is David? David is officially standing with his boots on the ground in […]
Through A Glass, Darkly
We were nine days into this deployment when my daughter broke to pieces. At three years old, time is not hers to understand; so when nine days had passed and Papa still had not returned, when she still was told it would take longer, when nine months might as well be never, she fell apart. […]