Archive for October, 2009
4 years
Grandpa,
It is unbelievable that it’s been more than four years now since I last saw you and heard your voice. More than four years have passed since the last time I got to give you a hug. It seems like it’s been forever and like it was just yesterday – like these things always do, [...]
Filed under: missing Grandpa | 5 Comments
a few things
Thing the first: QUIDDITCH! Jonna went to a real, live Quidditch game! (There aren’t enough caps or exclamation points IN! THE! WORLD! for this, so I’m trying to maintain a low-key thing here. QUIDDITCH!) I mean sure, the brooms didn’t FLY or anything, but still. I want to know how I can coerce the local [...]
Filed under: daily, me, the money pit | 9 Comments
the luckiest
Have I mentioned lately that life with Madeline is pretty awesome?
Because… yup, it is. It really, really is. (“Really, really!” is now one of her favorite additives to any description).
Whatever else may be happening… I know that I will always find joy in her face.
My Maddie girl, I love you. There aren’t really words for just [...]
Filed under: Madeline | 7 Comments
Tags: parenting
following through
In the wise words of HannahBeth: ”Sometimes being married is like having a never-ending slumber party with your best friend. In its best times, it is exactly that.”
This is so very true, and I was struck by it the first time I read it. I’ve been thinking about it all weekend, reflecting about those words and [...]
Filed under: Jimmy, marriage, me | 5 Comments
Tags: marriage
oh, honestly then.
More than ten years ago I met a boy and fell in love. It was a stupid love, a teenage love, the ridiculous type forever immortalized by the abysmal-yet-addicting Twilight series. Neither of us could do wrong in the others’ eyes, and eventually we were engaged and married.
Somewhere along the way he found and fell [...]
Filed under: Jimmy, PPD, me | 8 Comments
Tags: marriage, marriage after baby
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