our beautiful everydays
we’ve spent the last almost 5 years doing just what we wanted- when we wanted. we’ve spent spring days in the grass smelling flowers and dirt and feeling our skin warm in the sun. we’ve spent hot summer days in the park for hours filling shoes with sand and duck bellies with bread crumbs. in the fall we walked […]
new year
in 2008 everything i had ever thought about anything was pulverized. i learned about grief, guilt, regret, and the complete destruction of my belief system…i learned to live without closure, without reason, and without understanding. and how to act like i was doing fine when i most definately was not. actually, the least fine i’ve ever been. […]
“thanks for the trouble you took from her eyes..”
i’m so grateful to have noah and chloe. somewhere amidst the bickering, bothering, crying, and general frustration of being a mom to two toddlers are moments of pure happiness.
the moment it left me
i think most people will see this image and think i mean my heart.
which is in part true. but i also mean innocence, hope, faith and my ideas on how everything in the world worked.
i remember when it left and i’m pretty sure it looked just about like this.
missed them
yesterday i had the first alone day that have had in a very long time. no noah, no chloe, no husband. just me and you know what? it wasn’t that great. the highlight of the day was when emily stopped by and brent showed up with lunch. i watched a movie from start to finish […]
breaking up with the microwave popcorn
i love love popcorn and so does chloe. we actually eat it every day. then this was brought to my attention. if it takes an enormous amount to actually be dangerous we probably passed that amount long ago. everything causes cancer..but this was an easy fix.
i’ve heard you can throw some kernels in a brown […]
movies i watched today
what i learned from nights in rodanthe: if you have fantasy whirlwind passionate romance by the sea, then your love could also die in a mudslide working as a doctor in equador. that’s just how it is. i tried hard not to let this movie see me cry.
what i learned from the barbie mariposa […]
