I am nearly incapable of letting the phone ring without answering it, even with the modern luxury of caller id telling me that it’s: 000-000-0000 calling. That’s the number we refer to as Satan’s. Do I let the machine pick up? No. Luckily the calls don’t come in that often. Email on the other hand? [...]
Saturday, March 19, 2011
To everyone but Tet and Meghan: Find a swing set. Pick a swing. Park your sweet ass on said swing. Pump and pump and pump until you reach your cruising speed. Lean back. Look up. Recapture hope and wonder. Pass it on. To Tet and Meghan: Put your feet up. Have respective hubbies apply lotion to your (insert body part of choice) Watch mindless television or devour [...]
Friday, March 18, 2011
I got the email as I headed out to the gym. It was from a friend who moved far away just as I realized how much we had in common. I’ve since had episodes of lamenting in day dreams the friendship we could have had, knowing all the while that I probably wouldn’t have followed [...]
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
It’s been a long winter, rife with conflict. Navigating a course as mother, wife, business owner and fully-realized self has sapped so much from me. There are times when I allowed myself to get caught in the rut of discontent. Then I saw this: “It is better to light one small candle than to curse the [...]
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Being grateful and being truly aware of your blessings are two entirely different things. I sat down today while the girls napped to write a letter of reference for friends of ours. Sean was working on prepping dinner and putting away groceries so that I was unencumbered by all the things that are more easily accomplished [...]
Monday, February 14, 2011
There is nothing that I do here that makes me any money. No ads. No sponsors. No giveaways. Nothing. I started blogging in 2004 and have been pecking away (Sorry Mr. Demick, Keyboarding 101 was really just a long lunch for me, so rarely did I attend. You weren’t a perv, so I still don’t know [...]
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
More snow. Double ear infection. (mine) Laundry and deadlines vying. (not all mine) This 18 month old pic of Fin is how I feel today. (lucky to call her mine) Carry on.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Sometimes a little bit of magic springs from nothing…this is how I delight in my girls. ThePersonYouNeedFromthePotty
Friday, December 31, 2010
I had a book growing up called Heather’s Feathers. It was a sweet story about the way we all change differently and that there is beauty in everyone’s way of doing it. I remember my sister and I both loving it. I looked at it during my fifth grade year wishing that I could find [...]
Monday, December 20, 2010
Finley is pure gooey-grin-maker. Movie on 2010-12-04 at 09.43 #2* *And I’m a horsey-link-maker.
Monday, March 28, 2011
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