Thursday, August 13, 2009

little patients




so thankful these are well child visits.

Sunday, July 19, 2009

brynne can see God

eve said tonight. it all started with "once upon a time" (eve's favorite thing to do with daddy every night but since he was out, i had to use my not so imaginative imagination) so we were talking about pregnancy and the uterus and pushing babies out and how eve wants to have a baby and how God makes every good thing including babies. and how we can't see God- she thought this meant that He must be in the ground- but can see all the things He made, so she thought that since God put brynne in my "belly"- i swore i would never use this inaccurate terminology so i grit my teeth when it happens- , she must have seen Him when He did it. which started a whole other conversation about brynne not having eyes in the beginning, etc, etc, etc.

Friday, July 10, 2009

Friday, June 19, 2009

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

update

is my newborn really 5 1/2 months old? oh, how to sum up these past 5 months... in some ways, i've been very glad; in others, quite sad.

glad: that the nightmare the twins have suffered is- i'm praying- behind them (http://noraandryan.blogspot.com/); that breastfeeding is no longer excruciatingly painful; that brynne sleeps through the night and is a happy healthy butterball; that eve is a startingly super big sister; that don & i are implementing some things to help us navigate this thing called marriage; that the shock of our outrageous tax bill has subsided; that i can (almost) fit into my jeans; that jesus is real (ok, maybe those last two don't really go together or maybe the latter is the reason for the former?)

sad: that there are way too many people suffering around us- way way too many, way way too young; that there are people so desperate to make $ that they will trample on others in the process; that fear still has its ugly grip on me; that my baby girl is approaching 6 months already (i love every minute of babyhood- hmmm, point #2 has apparently slipped my mind); that there's not enough time in the day to do all that i want to: parenting, partnering, part-timing-- referring to work here--, befriending, neighboring, cooking, sunscreening, cleaning -- no wait, that's not something i want to do--, photographing, reading, showering, praying, gardening, couponing (had to throw that in), and oh ya, serving others.

Thursday, January 15, 2009