You know that I work full time outside the home, right? I’ve whined shared about it here often enough.
Last week it took me away from home and my boys for four full days. And four days in toddler time is basically an eternity.
But after I got home, wrassled my boys, wrapped arms and legs around [...]
Entries from February 2010
February 28, 2010
How a 3×5 index card changed my life
February 25, 2010
Love me a man who
Love me a man who has some baseball-mitt sized hands.
Love me a man who knows more about my homeland than I do.
Love me a man who loves him our boys.
Love me a man who sees heaven in a cinnabon, a Sunday afternoon nap, and me without my make up.
OK, your turn…
February 24, 2010
Guest post: a day in the life of my doppelganger
I can’t wait for you to meet, Alece.
She’s the shorter, green-eyed, cool-tattooed version of me. And she’s spent more time in my homeland the last decade or so than I have. I try not to hold that against her.
When we met the first time she shocked my socks off by dropping some serious [...]
February 22, 2010
It takes guts to be a mom
Motherhood terrifies me.
Especially when I am standing at the daycare door.
I don’t know how Hannah did it. Her courage makes my stomach want to drop out the bottom.
I am sharing about Hannah, this fear, and it’s antidote on my friend Jessica’s site today. She writes at Muthering Heights and is one of the co-hosts of the [...]
February 18, 2010
I write because
I write because it’s one of the times I feel most like myself.
I write because, like others, I need a place to re-tell my story and process it’s twists and turns. I trace my fingers over the memories of the day or last year, reading the raised braille of the faces I have held, the places I [...]
