Gabriel David Lester
Born with love and joy at home at 5:30 am Christmas morning.  Baby and Mama are both healthy and well.  Thank you in advance for your good wishes – we are resting and trying to soak up this precious time, and so grateful for this amazing blessing.

It’s been a week filled with beauty, love, and plenty of challenges.  Like most weeks, basically.  Ella’s had a wicked chest cold for about two weeks, which wakes her in the night coughing (which wakes me int he night to comfort her).  I did manage to sneak in a bit of crafting while a babysitter ...
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Lest you think that I’m all grumps and thunder these days . . . I’m either laughing here at the enormity of my own belly, or at something Ella was saying.  Maybe both.  As baby gets closer, I can’t help but remember the baby who might have been born in October.  Every time I dream ...
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Some days, I find myself snapping, crackling at the edges as if I might break or burst into flame.  Often I catch myself sooner, but sometimes I have to get to that point before I realize that I am really, really thirsty.  Thirsty for good words.  I realize, suddenly, that I am trapped in my ...
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