Today, I made a choice. A hard choice. A really hard choice. A choice that I’ve weighed and waffled on for months. Today, I quit my job to become a stay at home mom. I’ve never been good with cramming the quality into only an hour or two like some moms can. I need quantity…
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Now is good
I have bits of blog posts written in all the parts of my brain that can possibly house such things at the moment, but the goal right now is to rest and sleep as much as I can whenever I can. And sleep is lacking since Joshua’s had a stomach flu that has prevented my…
Emma’s VBAC Birth Story
I get so overwhelmed with the thought of writing this birth story that I’ve started and stopped (in my head, at least) half a dozen times or more. Do I make it funny? Heartfelt? Serious? All of the above? Can I adequately encompass all the emotions I went through on Monday? Have gone through during…
The Enormity of Love
I’m sitting outside my doctor’s office with thoughts of the morning swirling through my head. I find myself wistful. Longing for a do-over. Another chance to just be. It wasn’t a bad morning. In fact, as mornings go it was quite pleasant. Mellow. Quiet. But what if this was our last morning as a family…
What We Did This Week, Week 1
Since Dan bought me a new camera, I figured the least I can do is use it. I may not know HOW to use it–yet–but I can certainly turn the thing on and take some pictures in Auto and then use Picasa to do light color correcting, right? Sometimes we do interesting things during the…