【推荐1】Routine can make a person blind to beauty. You can drive along the same road day after day, but it isn’t until you are in the passenger seat that you _______ the old farmhouse hidden just behind the trees. Raising children can have a similar effect. As time flows you _______ a routine.

Our normal life changed when our 3-year-old daughter Piper was diagnosed with autism(自闭症). As the youngest of our three children, Piper entered the world full of _______, but her laughter disappeared at the age of 3. Great _______ led my husband David and me to her doctor, and that day set off a chain of events that threw our routine out of the house.

I felt that while the rest of the world carried on, time for us had come to a _______. I was also worried about Kaydence and Cameron, feeling guilty for _______ them of quality time because so much of our time was invested in taking care of their sister. Fortunately with remarkable doctors and teachers, Piper started _______.

What happened next was nothing short of _______. I deliberately took a step back and became the “passenger” again. I forced myself to actually _______ our new routine instead of focusing on where we needed to be next. In doing so, I was given one of the greatest gifts in a decade of marriage. I was able to see my husband in a ________ light.

It suddenly occurred to me that my heart wasn’t the only one that ________ over the past few months. On Piper’s toughest days, I nearly suffered a ________. It was my husband who ________ me and provided Kaydence and Cameron with the consistency and nurturing they needed to ________ this storm with us. I ________ many people a great deal along this journey, but the biggest thanks go to my husband, a man never for a second let us lose our way.

【推荐2】After realizing that my wife and I were using electronic devices around our toddler (刚学步的小孩) too much, we decided to try removing them from his life entirely. When we’re with him, we put our ______ away and if we need to use one, we move to another room. Considering how simple this is, it’s revealing how ______ I’ve found it.

I realized I was talking about this ______ as if it were my son’s, when obviously it’s my own. Our son doesn’t ______them at all, whereas we feel strangely naked (赤裸裸的) without phones. Having our phone in our hand has become second ______.

Every day I ______ through the same two or three apps, clicking on notifications as if my well-being ______ on it. I click on Twitter less than three seconds after I last ______it. I find myself looking up ______ information – the difference between frogs and toads (蟾蜍), the lyrics to a song I will never remember. I spend too much time ______ things on the internet and not enough time looking up from it. But at the very least, I can ______ doing this when my ______ is around.

All parents have had the ______ of looking away for five seconds only to look back and discover their child moments away from ______. It was a common part of ______ even before phones were invented, but the ______is whether I’ve been creating more ______ for such moments to occur. And the answer is yes. There is simply no bit of trivia (琐事) online that is worth ______ my child’s safety.

And the _____   is I’ve been missing out on the world in front of me, even if it’s just for a minute or two at a time. I fear my son thinking I’m more ______ in the screen than I am in him. So, from here on out, I’m looking up.

【推荐3】I have lived in the United States for 30 years or so. I couldn’t fully_________how the concept of   “the pursuit of happiness”_________ in with a super busy life. It was not until I started to grow plants on the balcony of my house on a quiet street in Boston that I had a(n)_________.

Gardening does not come_________ to me. I was not_________ to it as a child. I grew up in a city. My fellow people didn’t seem to_________the absence of green. They lived in apartments and grew flowers in concrete courtyards or on balconies to_________their gardening needs. No one grew herbs or vegetables. Why_________? Fresh produce was a plentiful_________in daily markets nearby. Garlic, ginger were____________as a sign of thanks with the____________of meat.

The first spring after I moved into my Boston____________, I grew my own food. I developed a deeper appreciation for the____________of plants. There were____________along the way: pests; sometimes too much heat, other times not adequate sun. For several seasons, I had tomato troubles. I’d find half-eaten fruit____________. I made a habit, night after night, of moving plants indoors, so I would be the one to____________, not some creature with four paws.

In the____________of home-grown food—seeding, growing, tending, harvesting, cooking—I came to understand a(n)____________version of happiness. It can be a matter of the heart’s____________small steps of satisfaction, resulting from “neither wealth nor greatness” in Thomas Jefferson’s words “but____________and occupation.”

【推荐3】Phyllis George, the former Miss America who became a female sports casting pioneer on CBS’s The NFL Today and served as the first lady of Kentucky, has _______. She was 70.

A family spokeswoman said George died Thursday in hospital _______ a long fight with a blood disorder.

Her children gave a joint statement, _______ “For many, Mom was known for her _______ as the pioneering female sportscaster, 50th Miss America and first lady. To us, she was the most incredible _______ we could ever ask for.”

George joined in The NFL Today in 1975 and _______ her sports broadcasting and worked on the live show, interviewing star athletes, which won _______ for her. She also covered horse racing and _______ the entertainment show People and CBS Morning News.

George _______ wrote a male friend and told him that her sports casting wouldn’t ________ because it was a man’s job. However, none of the difficulties she met with ________ her. With her great courage and ________, she managed to range into a (an) ________ variety of roles, in media, the film industry, food and beauty products, and as the first lady of the bluegrass state.

“Saying yes to yourself opens up ________ that can take you ________,” George wrote.

“She had ________ and enthusiasm that made her a valuable ________,” Pilson said. “She didn’t claim to know a ________ amount about sports, but she knew about people, which is why her interviews were ________. She was a warm person and that ________ through on the set and in the interviews.