HeyJaredUgly Shoes & Paper Planes
I write about applied spirituality and the beauty of quiet service as a mother of young children. I wear ugly shoes and enjoy flying paper planes with my kids.
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For the Love of Hifz (opens the original)
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I Will Not Forget. (opens the original)
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I’ve started this draft at least twenty times. I’m sharing my latest draft, because if I don’t write it, no one else will.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1941" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JQ7F!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_au
The Day the Car Died (opens the original)
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I revisited an aphorism in the midst of baby blowouts and back-to-school busyness. If you’ve already read the story about Blackberry, my old car, you can skip to the bottom. Some good news: one of our first readers adopted a child! I wanted to send heartfelt congratulations to him and his wife! It is miraculous what sincere duas can achieve. May God grant mercy and ease for this family as they embark on this new journey of parenthood! I’ll never forget how my husband picked me up in his Dad’s Od
Baby the Baby (opens the original)
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Summer is winding down. Writing to you feels like I’m lost in a giant bin of legos. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1941" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!X7RO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstac
The Longest Month of the Year: July (opens the original)
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Dear friends, With a two month-old baby AGAIN, the physical signs of broken sleep are all around my house: dishes in the sink, and bags under my eyes. I still look like I am 6 months pregnant, and will look like this for a while. (At this point, I believe it’s my permanent body frame at this point).Probably, there are signs of broken sleep in this newsletter too. Misplaced commas. Bad punctuation. Convoluted ideas. Lack of formatting. Fragments. Some days, I feel sorta broken, down on myself for
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