Maine

We have returned to Maine, a place I fell in love with one year ago.   Last June, we came to Maine and enjoyed Acadia National Park.  Yesterday, we returned.  This year we are in Camden and we are enjoying the midcoast region.    We are very different people than we were when we left […]

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Us

May 2012 Our church has a Mother’s Day tradition of taking family photos and framing them as a gift for the mothers.   I love this tradition and I love looking back on all of our previous photos and seeing how our family has changed.  Boy, oh boy, has our family changed.

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Do I Look Familiar?

Remember me… loony knitter that had 2 more children in 2 years… all while being over 40?  Sound familiar? Well, let me get things caught back up. The Drawer:   In my last post I discussed the idea of cleaning out a drawer of little jewelry boxes and my fear that if I did that, […]

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Still Alive

I had no idea how hard, great but hard, having a third child would be.  Add in the closeness in age between Jack Henry and Georgia Kate, season that with some major colic issues and my life has become buck wild crazy.  And with that, things have been neglected.  Thankfully things are getting easier, colic […]

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Georgia On My Mind

As a kid, I had a grandmother who loved me beyond measure.  Yes, she was a worrier and a fretter and drove many batty with her list of concerns.  But she loved me.  Loved me to a point that, quite frankly, really irritated my mother.  I always knew she loved me but until recently, I […]

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Seven

My Beautiful Girl Dear Anna Grace I can’t believe you are seven.  I am continually amazed at how fast you’re growing, how fast time flies and how much I love who you are becoming while still missing that little girl who used to push a disassembled shopping cart all through the house, the neighborhood, the […]

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So What’s Been Happening?

Well… many little things. 1.  We went to Iowa (“we” as in the kids and I) and had a great time seeing my dad, his fiance and my three sisters.  But midway through the trip an uninvited guest appeared: the stomach flu.  AG was the first to bottom out followed by me, Jack Henry and […]

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Can O’ Worms

Can O’ Worms…. I’m opening it up!!!! We went to Orlando tonight to our old church to hear a guest speaker that we really think a lot of and to hear an old hippie band sing.  Great fun!  We really enjoyed seeing many old friends and it was so nice to catch up.  But then […]

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