Tag Archives: babies

Where Do Babies Come From?

Posted on August 23, 2025 by mitchteemley

Old Myth: When a lady wants to be a mommy, a stork magically appears overhead with a baby in its beak and drops it into the lady’s house! But if the lady doesn’t want it–poof!–the stork takes it away! New … Continue reading →

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Motherhood Is Forever!

Posted on May 11, 2025 by mitchteemley

To say that motherhood is complicated is like saying “the Sistine Chapel is a nice little drawing.” Motherhood marks the start of (at least) one life, and the profound transformation of another. Lives that in all their complexity will extend … Continue reading →

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50 Visual Definitions of “Cute”

Posted on April 19, 2024 by mitchteemley

How do you define “cute”? Oh, you know, it’s, um… Sometimes cute is funny, sometimes it’s a baby (human or animal) or at least something sweet or innocent…but then again, it isn’t always. Bottom line: Cute is hard to define, … Continue reading →

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Labor Pains

Posted on June 14, 2023 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week is Sheila of Wrestling Word. A retired librarian from Western Michigan University, Sheila digs into life and spiritual truths just as doggedly as she might a library catalogue. And she always comes up with something … Continue reading →

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Spring Awakens

Posted on March 24, 2023 by mitchteemley

 Spring has awakened in my hemisphere. But just barely — the season is still seesawing between spring and winter (I call it Sprinter). But the daffodils are here to get the party started (the snowdrops came early, drank all the … Continue reading →

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A Kid’s-Eye View of Reality

Posted on September 9, 2022 by mitchteemley

All children are aliens. Think about it: they come to our world from a liquid environment where they never had to breathe, where after every strange gurgling noise they suddenly felt full, where their every little movement was followed by … Continue reading →

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Kids Explain the World

Posted on June 14, 2018 by mitchteemley

When my daughter Amanda was 4 1/2, she drew the above illustration of American pioneer life. Her sister Beth, age 3, asked her why the pioneer girl was crying and why there were spiders in the covered wagon. Mandy patiently … Continue reading →

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Babies

Posted on October 28, 2017 by mitchteemley

“Making the decision to have a child–it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.” ~Elizabeth Stone “I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the … Continue reading →

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