Farewell Boy Mom
This is my last Boy Mom post. Five years I’ve been telling these stories. Stories of adoption, faith and family. Stories of five boys,...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
- Jun 5, 2019
- 3 min
Dragonflies
The dragonflies were out yesterday afternoon when we returned from the airport. Somehow this seemed symbolic. My boys taking flight all...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
- May 29, 2019
- 3 min
Dear Jimmy
Dear Jimmy, You are amazing. An Anomaly. Dad said so just the other day, talking to someone at a wedding. Four and a half years you’ve...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
- May 18, 2019
- 3 min
Everything at Once
How are you doing with all of this? Everyone asks and I hardly know what to say. I’m not sure, to be honest. Years ago, when the boys...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
- May 12, 2019
- 3 min
Dance (by Luke Anderson)
Luke Anderson blesses his mom with a Mother’s Day post. Mom likes stories. Of course, you don’t need me to tell you that; you read her...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
- Apr 5, 2019
- 3 min
Cleaning
I’ve been CLEANING. Not so much spring cleaning, as season-of-life-cleaning. This move thing is getting real, twenty-three years of...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
- Mar 16, 2019
- 4 min
Heir
A few nights ago Kyle and I watched the movie Instant Family. It was Felipe’s idea. He’d watched it in the theater with Marcella, and...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
- Feb 28, 2019
- 3 min
Prosper
Earlier this week I ran across something I wrote in the fall of 2014. Just weeks away from our trip to Colombia, still waiting, still...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
- Jan 4, 2019
- 3 min
L & A
(Photo credit to Kiana Grant Photography) We’re back in the Jeep, heading home, six of us in close quarters. It’s two days past our...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
- Dec 12, 2018
- 2 min
Two Become Ten
(Photo credit to Kiana Grant Photography) The boy is on the road, heading due west. Like a pioneer. Good-bye Iowa, and if all goes as...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
- Aug 27, 2018
- 3 min
Magic
kianagrantphotography.com I’m a bit obsessed with Ben Rector’s newest album. Not since Crowder’s A Collision, released in 2005, have I...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
- Aug 18, 2018
- 3 min
The Next Thing
(Jimmy’s senior photo shoot by kianagrantphotography.com) Tuesday was a hard day. Monday I endured bravely the driving away and the...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
- Aug 13, 2018
- 3 min
Leaving
You’d think I’d be used to it by now. This packing up and moving out and saying good-bye. It’s the same thing every fall, and summers,...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
- Aug 6, 2018
- 3 min
Credible
It was just three of us sitting at the fire Wednesday night. Luke’s friends on their way back to the city, and parents savoring a few...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
- Jul 30, 2018
- 3 min
Love Story
We’re living a love story. Me and my family. And I’m not just talking about Luke and Ali, although there’s no doubt about the boy’s...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
- Jul 9, 2018
- 3 min
GOAT
It was the name of the new playlist Nils created and shared with our family, and it was me who asked it. Why GOAT? I have a history with...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
- Jun 25, 2018
- 3 min
Girl-Grandma (:
It’s a GIRL!!!! Our little Maisy Rae, born last week, and what does this mean for a boy-mom Grandma?!! Nana, that is. And I’m telling you...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
- May 16, 2018
- 3 min
(in) Love
Love is the silver bullet. I said it without even thinking. Or thinking out loud more like. Church staff gathered around tables, talking...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
- Feb 2, 2018
- 3 min
This is…
Us. It took me a while to tune into the show everyone else had been talking about. Last fall we even named a sermon series after it at...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
- Jan 19, 2018
- 2 min
Fairytales
There are believers in Minnesota. No doubt, there’s no other explanation than this. They’re calling it the Minneapolis Miracle – the...
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