Posts Tagged as ‘family’

June 9, 2008

Tender

Tomorrow is June 10. Tomorrow my youngest son Eli starts preschool. I can hardly believe it. He’s only 2 and a half, and yet here we are. I remember the day he was born, and all the little milestones. This is another one. The first time my son will [...]

May 21, 2008

You deserve to know..

It’s been a crazy few days. Dave took this week off. Ten whole days of not working. Awesome. And yet, five days in to this “vacation,” I feel far less rested than you might imagine. I’ve been telling everyone (who will listen) that we are having a non-vacation type of [...]

April 19, 2008

No Bad News.

Life has been moving at an incredible pace lately. There are many many days I don’t even have time to stop and think about what day it is or what month.. I attribute much of this to just being a mother of two small children. Time flies, life goes by so fast. My [...]

April 11, 2008

Down came the rain..

This is a story I have never really told. It’s something I rarely tell anyone about. But it’s something that I have been thinking about. It’s part of my journey right now. And somehow I feel that by writing about it, and sharing it, I honor the memory of this terribly [...]

April 10, 2008

Autism touches everyone.

This post is written in honor of Autism Awareness Month and will be featured at Momologue .
I recently read this article entitled The Vaccine-Autism Court Document Every American Should Read from The Huffington Post and it stopped me dead in my tracks. I decided to blog for Autism in April for many [...]

March 1, 2008

One Conversation

I stole this idea shamelessly from Shellee. I think it’s beautiful.
I want to find the strength to really be the person I am made to be.
I want to learn how to be more patient.
I want to understand more about You and why You love me.
I want to be fully healthy and whole.
I want to be [...]

February 11, 2008

Vulnerability

There’s something about standing in a room of about 50 people with less clothing than I generally wear and stretching, moving, and sweating that makes me feel - well, vulnerable. But honestly it’s not the physical vulnerability that has been getting to me lately. I can handle the skin, and the sweat, I [...]

February 6, 2008

And so it goes…

One of the hardest parts about being a mom is that you never know from one moment to the next what your life is going to be like. Some days are hard, some are easy. Some days everything falls into place. The kids are happy, the house is clean, life seems to [...]

January 26, 2008

Happiest Saturday.

Maybe it’s the sunshine. Maybe it’s just a good day. I am so happy. I want to write a quick blog so that later in the week (or even later today) if this happiness slips away I can come back to this post and remind myself of all the amazing blessings in [...]

January 18, 2008

Top 10 reasons you should not comment on blogs at 4:30 am.. and other random details that you may or may not care to read about.. A rainy Friday and the longest blog title ever.

yeah OK, so.. We’ll start with the top 10.
I get up early M/W/F for yoga. EARLY! Like 4 am early. Yeah, that early, three times a week. I typically wake up, dress, then check the computer while I down a banana before heading out the door for class. This [...]