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  • Five Years :: of Hope

    by BleuBird Mama

    Tomorrow is the five year anniversary of the day my daughter died. There are two streams of thought I have today: I am grateful – I see my children running in the autumn sun, I watch my husband holding them, I feel their arms wrap around my legs, and I realize, “Five years ago I could never have imagined life looking like this five...

    November 3, 2019
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    Grief
  • Fear: Not Your Friend

    by BleuBird Mama

    It’s interesting.  I discovered something fascinatingly new to me in my study of Gensis. Do you know how Adam & Eve first responded to God after the Curse? The Lord was quietly walking through his Garden in the evening, and he called to his children gently.  And what was their immediate response? They were hiding because they were FEARFUL. Their first response, in a...

    September 26, 2019
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    Grief
  • Chaos :: Rhythms

    by BleuBird Mama

    Bouquets of newly sharpened pencils.  Bushels of apples.  Long shadows.  Falling leaves.  Pumpkin spice everywhere. Nostalgia. And then you have kids. Lots and lots and lots of germs. Stuffy heads and runny noses. Early bedtimes. Consistent schedules. Not enough coffee. School newsletters and paperwork. More stuffiness and less patience. The list could go on, but my fingers are tired just typing out that short...

    September 23, 2019
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    Family
  • Scrapes :: Bumps

    by BleuBird Mama

    Today I told my daughter “Fear is not your friend. Scrapes and bumps are part of the game of life.” Mind you, all she was doing was learning to ride her bike with training wheels. She’d taken quite a tumble a few minutes prior while going down a steep incline. When she fell I held her close and soothed her, and the first thing...

    August 28, 2019
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    Family
  • Darkness :: Light

    by BleuBird Mama

    After Heidi died suddenly at four days old, her little sister Everley was born nine months later at nine weeks early and lived in the NICU for six weeks. In less than a year, my heart was shattered by death and the pieces that were left got beat up and bruised from the near death of my second daughter. I was a bloody mess...

    August 19, 2019
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    Family
  • With :: Me

    by BleuBird Mama

    My nearly four year old daughter asked me, before I left her with all the fuzzy animals and one dim night-light, to ask God to be with her. “Of course, I will ask God to be with you. He is always with you. No matter what happens.” What truth are we teaching our children? That God loves them? That God wants them? That God...

    August 11, 2019
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    Grief
  • Be: A Steward

    by BleuBird Mama

    Tragedies all around. Walmart shooting. A friend with potential brain cancer & three little children at home. A friend with pregnancy complications. Another friend who had a difficult late miscarriage like mine. Tragedies make us think. Since we can’t Turn Back Time and since we can’t Mess Up the Sovereignty of God, what CAN we do? There’s a gray area to life that I...

    August 10, 2019
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    Family
  • Day 5: Own It

    by BleuBird Mama

    Counseling has been one of those things for us. We really really need it. When we were dating we met with a couple who’s 15 years older than we are to talk about relationship stuff- who’s in this triangle? how’s the triangle working? are we making this work for you, me and God, or just one angle of this triangle? You know, good thoughtful...

    October 5, 2018
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    Marriage
  • Day 2: Suffering Spouse

    by BleuBird Mama

    I remember the stomach ache I had the morning I attended the elite military special operations class graduation that July morning. I became more nauseas as I listened to the Master of Ceremonies gloat and bellow about the absurd pride of this military unit. It was disgusting to me how much weight and glory was put into human striving and human achievement. I didn’t...

    October 2, 2018
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    Grief, Marriage
  • Day 1: to Manly

    by BleuBird Mama

    My dearest Manly, I’m starting something new today- for the next 27 days of this October, until our six year anniversary on the 27th, I’ll be writing a tid bit a day about us. About being us. About finding us. About looking forward to us. We often say that we’ve been to hell and back with someone we really didn’t know, haven’t we? We’ve...

    October 1, 2018
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    Marriage

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Potter :: Mama

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I’ve scrounged up the time -in the business of motherhood and life itself- to throw on my wheel, which is located in a corner of my parents’ basement. They...

February 17, 2018
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Motherhood, Pottery

Steel :: Magnolias

Published by BleuBird Mama

When I first moved to this area five years ago, I knew a couple people but had no history connected to this city in the mountains. Everything was new....

November 6, 2017
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Grief, Pottery

a Conversation :: Clay to Potter

Published by BleuBird Mama

I said to the Potter, “Why have you made me this way? Why must I be in pain?” I heard in my spirit, “My power is made perfect in...

April 13, 2016
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Pottery

VB // BBM Story

Published by BleuBird Mama

Hey there readers, Some of you, I’m sure, have wondered how Bleubird Earthen came about. Well, here’s the story! Straight from me, the BleuBird Mama! If we haven’t met...

February 8, 2016
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Pottery

Pottery: First Fruits

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Well, I’m still dreaming of a white Christmas, so I thought I’d post some pictures of snow 😉 These are actually pictures of the first fruits of my pottery...

January 7, 2016
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Pottery

Clay: Sculpted for Purpose

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“I am the clay and He is the Potter” … While in high school, I took local college courses; I was mostly focused on completing the fundamental first year...

July 3, 2014
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Pottery, Uncategorized

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Five Years :: of Hope

by BleuBird Mama

Tomorrow is the five year anniversary of the day my daughter died. There are two streams of thought I have today: I am grateful – I see my children running in the autumn sun, I watch my husband holding them, I feel their arms wrap around my legs, and I realize, “Five years ago I could never have imagined life looking like this five years plus one day later.” I am humbled – My husband and I weren’t blamed for my daughter’s death, we nearly lost our second daughter but she survived due to medical expertise, we have health care, a good home, a very supportive community. I have only survived the death of my daughter, and there was no tragedy in my life before it, and there has been no serious tragedy immediately following it. But others in this world – a significant portion of the current human population and most of humankind since the beginning of Creation – have suffered tragedy after tragedy after tragedy in one lifetime. Holocaust survivors. Rwandan genocide...

November 3, 2019
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Time :: Stride

by BleuBird Mama

Time is a warped entity in grief and post trauma.  Life is going to end soon. Much sooner than you realize. It happened to the person you love, so it will happen to you, too.  There isn’t enough time to enjoy the things you want to enjoy. There isn’t enough time to appreciate the things you want to appreciate. There isn’t enough time to...

December 4, 2019
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Family

Chaos :: Rhythms

by BleuBird Mama

Bouquets of newly sharpened pencils.  Bushels of apples.  Long shadows.  Falling leaves.  Pumpkin spice everywhere. Nostalgia. And then you have kids. Lots and lots and lots of germs. Stuffy heads and runny noses. Early bedtimes. Consistent schedules. Not enough coffee. School newsletters and paperwork. More stuffiness and less patience. The list could go on, but my fingers are tired just typing out that short...

September 23, 2019
comment 1
Family

Scrapes :: Bumps

by BleuBird Mama

Today I told my daughter “Fear is not your friend. Scrapes and bumps are part of the game of life.” Mind you, all she was doing was learning to ride her bike with training wheels. She’d taken quite a tumble a few minutes prior while going down a steep incline. When she fell I held her close and soothed her, and the first thing...

August 28, 2019
comments 0
Family

Darkness :: Light

by BleuBird Mama

After Heidi died suddenly at four days old, her little sister Everley was born nine months later at nine weeks early and lived in the NICU for six weeks. In less than a year, my heart was shattered by death and the pieces that were left got beat up and bruised from the near death of my second daughter. I was a bloody mess...

August 19, 2019
comments 0
Family

A Collection

Homestead, Marriage

Gardening :: Life

I don’t know much about plants and gardening, but one thing I do know is that if I want more blooms I have to prune the bush. It’s the...

July 15, 2018
comment 1
Motherhood, Pottery

Potter :: Mama

I’ve scrounged up the time -in the business of motherhood and life itself- to throw on my wheel, which is located in a corner of my parents’ basement. They...

February 17, 2018
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Housecrafts

Potter :: God

At this juncture in my potential career with clay, I’m simply learning how to “feel” the clay. I’m learning how it moves and shifts and forms and swells and...

February 3, 2018
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Grief, Pottery

Steel :: Magnolias

When I first moved to this area five years ago, I knew a couple people but had no history connected to this city in the mountains. Everything was new....

November 6, 2017
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blog, Homestead

Picture: a day

I’m going to be trying a new thing here on my blog- Posting a picture a day with a few thoughts attached to it. I’ve used my Facebook blog-page...

November 5, 2017
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Homestead

Safe :: Haven

I sometimes wonder what people think when they see my IG feed or my FB feed- these beautiful snapshots of our life at Bluebird Haven. Do they think we...

August 19, 2017
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"Expect Him to defend you from fear itself, from an endless raising of 'what ifs' and 'but, Lords.' Let your imagination come to rest in His Word of promise. Don't let it moil in the frightening possibilities- there will be plenty of grace at hand if any of those should come to pass, and that's really all that matters. Go on with the work God has given you. He will 'defend and deliver.' Go on in peace."

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