Marriage always requires taking a risk because no matter how well you think you know someone or how long you date someone, only time and experience and the experience of a shared life will expose someone’s true character to you. Lucky for me, Matt is good and honest and true down to his core, and …
Although happy about my achievement, the deliriousness of this picture is caused more by the wind and the attempt at a “jumping picture” rather than just the joy of the milestone. Just clarifying. Sadly, this is about the best picture we got, ha ha. Well, it’s happened—it might be about six or seven months later …
Photo courtesy of my sis My baby Raven, Today, you are one. WOW. What a year it has been! From the moment you first drew breath, you have seemingly been determined to learn as much as you can every day and to try to hit as many milestones as you can before each new month …
1. Since I never made it known here on the blog, I figured now is as good a time as any to say that I signed the resignation papers at work almost two weeks ago now, so as of summer, I will officially be unemployed. The funny thing is, I thought I’d be panicky and anxious …
I have a Big Life Decision coming up—well, both me and the hubby do. The time has come (sorta) for me to decide one way or another if I’m going to quit teaching after this year or not. The question is not whether or not I want to (I do), but more one of logistics–will …
You know what’s crazy? Parenthood has been about 20% what I expected, and 80% (mostly delightfully) not what I expected at all. I guess my problem has always been that I tend to pay much more attention to all the negative hype around something rather than the positive. That was definitely true of marriage–for …
Today on the 29th, I am 29 years old, making this my “golden birthday.” I am baffled to think that I am almost 30 years old—that just sounds so…mature. *Gulp.* Lately I’ve sometimes been plagued with thoughts that I’m not where I want to be and that because everything is not as I wish it …
Seeing as how I seem to have melted my brain somewhere in the 30-minute drive between my work and our apartment (or maybe it was already melted from my 85-degree, un-air-conditioned classroom), you won’t be hearing much from me tonight. Just this— About two weeks ago, we started Raven on solids, a positively delightful experience …
