I watched Mona Lisa Smile last night. I’d seen it once before, but didn’t remember much of it. One scene in particular stuck out to me. This one right here (the first two minutes):
Now, I don’t normally talk about things that may be deemed controversial on here (or maybe I do and just don’t know [...]
Marc made a comment the other day about whether there’s “something in our house” because as soon as we get home (from vacation, etc) we immediately go back to the cranky, messy, disorganized people we don’t want to be. I said that it’s not the house. I think it’s that when you’re on vacation you [...]
Well, summer is almost here. Sure it seems like it rains every day and you can never trust the forecast, but we did make it to the beach one evening earlier this week. And with summer comes summer apparel. This year it also means Marc’s and my tenth anniversary trip to England, which I had [...]
And we went to the zoo.
(These kids are growing up way too fast.)
Oh, and then we went for a walk down by the river. Just Olivia fell in the mud, thankfully.
Let me be really honest. It’s been a rough day around here. This is my second day of being sick: non-stop headache, cough, sinus trouble, and general body aches. And I am just so tired. I slept in until almost 9:30am. Spent as much time as I could laying on the couch this morning. (Seeing [...]
When I think about what it was like taking care of Madeline as a baby — my first baby–, two things come to mind: the blur and the focus. In once sense everything from the first ten months of her life feels like a total blur. Did you know that Marc took carpentry at SIAST [...]
Let’s start at the very beginning. I was blissfully unaware of what had just happened to me when Madeline quite literally burst into the world at 2:59am on Sunday, December 15, 2002. You know when you’re too tired to be tired? That’s what I was, and had been for about the last five hours of [...]
Yesterday I was given access to my online Foundations of Counseling course. I familiarized myself with the website and all of the things it does and all of the things I will do on there. Then I listened to the first introductory lecture (while doing Scrabble turns on Facebook and leg lifts in the computer [...]
It’s exactly one year ago today that Luke was in the hospital having his tonsils/adenoids removed and getting tubes put in his ears. And, it’s kind of a horrible thing to say, but I think that day was the day I realized how much I love Luke. I mean, obviously, I love the boy. He’s [...]
I’ve been mulling over how to write my annual “I can’t stand my body” post for the last few days. It started on Christmas Eve (when all of the good Christmas eating started) when I told Marc, “I hate my body. Pass the chips and dip.” Then the next day I gave Marc my bi-annual [...]