Blue Raspberry Sky

2006 This is a photo of Suzy when she was five years old - she is the youngest of my three daughters, and then we added five boys.  Yeah, it was just like it sounds.  ;)  I took this photo during a dark time in our family's life.  My husband had a job with a small business.  The man moved us from Blackfoot to St.  Anthony that year because he sold the Blackfoot/Pocatello region.  One week later the man decided to hire his nephew and let my husband go.  There's not much in St. Anthony, and the only job my husband could find in that moment was a job with a cabinet maker that paid $7/hr. I wasn't much help.  The twins weren't even six months old yet - I was still trying to breastfeed them while supplementing with formula.  My other boys were only two and a half years old - so I had four in diapers.  I was dealing with postpartum depression, my thyroid crashed, and I had a teenager that couldn't find happiness.  I was swamped in my own hell.  The only bright sp

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