Searching for Authenticity

Over the past few weeks I’ve been struggling to figure out what it is that is stirring so strongly inside of me.  My head is reeling with fragments of ideas and creative whims that I just can’t seem to shake, and yet, as luck would have it, I don’t have the...

Man, I’m hoping to start getting back to blogging soon…along with entering things in the kids’ baby books and journaling…oh, and working out and doing our family budget.

Happy Mother’s Day!

I am pooped, but I wanted to quickly get on here and wish everyone I know a very Happy Mother’s Day!  Today was really special because it was also my son’s first birthday in addition to Mother’s Day.  We had so much fun together, but I’m...

Happy Birthday, Julian!

Dear Julian, I just wanted to take a moment to wish you a very Happy 1st Birthday!  Wow!  I can’t believe you’re already 1 year old!  Time flies so quickly.  I remember vividly the day you were born.  I went into the hospital around 6am on Friday, May...

Coming out of the fog

Well, I’m coming out.  Out of the fog, that is.  At least temporarily.  Despite a few less than ideal mishaps with my oldest son today (potty training, temper tantrums, strange clingy-ness), we had a wonderful day that I always want to remember and look back...

Regrouping…Rethinking…Recreating

I’ve taken a rather long pause from blogging over the past few weeks as we have been out of the country and I haven’t had a moment to spare…let alone, to blog.  I have really missed writing, though.  I have missed it so much that I have begun small...

The boys

This week has been another developmental milestone for both of my boys. For starters, Julian now has 8 teeth and counting…he wants to have a full set by his first birthday and he might make it!  He is continuing to pull himself up to everything and stand.  He...

a prayer…and then another prayer

This post was half-written yesterday and never finished and published, but I think it’s relevant and I’d like to go ahead and postdate it and publish it today: Since I can remember, I have always kept a prayer journal.  I have a hard time focusing on...

Latest Happenings

Today is one of those days where you wonder how you make it through all the other days without going nuts.  It has been a relatively good day, but only because I succumbed to the notion that nothing would be accomplished — nothing, that is, that needs to be...

Ever changing

We had a great day today.  We got up this morning and I made breakfast tacos.  Daddy continued to work on the tile in the front hallway (even though he had a bad back that was nearly killing him).  Tate played quietly most of the day while Julian followed behind.  I...