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- Remembrance and Liturgy ….and (Surprise!) Refinement February 5, 2023
- Goodreads Review: How the Irish Saved Civilization January 21, 2023
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- Review of “Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in The Age of Enlightenment” December 27, 2022
- On Joy, Heritage, and Community: Folk Songs November 11, 2022
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On the 16th Anniversary of our Daughter’s Birth: Grace meet Wendi, Wendi meet Grace
This post is sort of what I planned for this day of remembering Virginia Grace Pelham (February 3, 2006 ~ February 24, 2006), but with the death yesterday, February 1, of my friend Wendi Capehart, who was already a part … Continue reading
Posted in Home School, My Personal History, Parenting, Teaching
Tagged all lives matter, Charlotte Mason, children are born persons, gratitude, grief, honesty, i am pro-life, life is a mist, providence, trisomy-18, truth, Virginia Grace, wisdom
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On the Fifteenth Anniversary of Our Daughter’s Birth
Our daughter, Virginia Grace Pelham, was born February 3, 2006 and passed from this life three weeks later, almost to the very hour of her birth, on February 24, 2006. I’ve often written on social media and on this blog … Continue reading
Posted in My Personal History
Tagged blessed, grateful, grief, remembering, trisomy-18, Virginia Grace
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What I learned five years ago
Today our daughter Virginia Grace Pelham would have been 5 years old. Grace had a chromosomal disorder named Edwards Syndrome or Trisomy-18 (being chromosome 18 that has the extra.) This was not something we were expecting on that day. Although, … Continue reading
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Tagged daughter, edwards syndrome, grief, trisomy-18, Virginia Grace
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