I turned thirty five over Labor Day weekend. We traveled up north to watch the home team play the first college football game of the season, and it was epic in both good ways and bad: BAD: The husband was out of town, so getting out was an Endeavor. After staying up late finishing…
Category: Parents and Siblings and Cousins, Oh My!
Emergence
Over the course of the past week, my morning sickness has finally begun to trickle away. I am 12 weeks pregnant today, and . . . Oh Lord, dare I say it out loud? . . . I think I might be coming out of the roughest stage. I still feel poised to plunge over…
Eas-terrific!
We had a lovely Palm and Easter Sunday. Holy Week was a special time for me at our church last year, and I missed being a part of the festivities and celebrations there. But we enjoyed getting to know our new church’s traditions, which included a child’s parade of palms on Palm Sunday. Afterwards, Jack…
2013
I just wanted to put something here. 2013 is flying by (11 days gone, already!), and unremarked upon. This cannot go on. A (very pleasant, planned for, and happily accommodated) wrench was thrown into our daily lives when we took a trip north (everywhere domestic is north from here) to visit a newborn niece. She…
the end is the beginning
My husband’s grandmother passed away. My husband is very private, he reads this blog, and I am not sure how much he’d want put here about this experience. But it feels disingenuous to write about our summer without acknowledging this sorrowful life event. She lived a long life, suffered a long illness, and is now…