Sometimes it’s neither the words, nor how they are said, but how many.
My mom couldn’t braid hair, so I never wore them.
Haven’t we all lost our wallet? I hate it when that happens.
My daughter is far from ordinary and my son was born in December, not February. I couldn’t hold him once, and that was frightening.* Now they both live over a thousand miles away.
I’ve never met anyone named Junior, and I’m pretty sure that my husband loves bicycles and dogs more than computers. As my father always told me, parents are amateurs… that’s a deep thought, meditate on that for a while.
Nobody should be judging strangers’ karma, their souls, their clothes, or cars, none of it. And seriously? Trucks have always made me a bit nervous on the many cross-country drives I’ve been able to take.
Sometimes, we all need help getting to bed, don’t we?
I dearly hope that people will say that I’ve raised not just one, but two saints. That is, after they’ve had a long time to brighten the lives of countless people, as they do mine.
I’ve always liked my name.
I am utterly thankful for what I call my uneventful life. Take care of those who need help, because we all need help in one way or another.
Thanks for reading, Donna
Click here for a link to the lyrics to the song Donna by the Lumineers
*I nearly dropped my son once- a virus affected my muscles. All of them. At 3:00 in the morning I woke my husband to tell him I was driving myself to the ER because it’s pretty frightening to not be able to hold your infant when he needs to eat. For a couple days after I just sat in one spot on the floor during the day and had my daughter run back and forth to fetch things that we needed… we kind of made a game out of our camp out in the family room.
branching out... on a limb 