There is always that question…”So what do you do?” or “What does your wife do?” direct at Ryan. I constantly get the response depending on the answer I give. Sometimes I give one answer, sometimes I give the other. When “Stay At Home Mom” is the answer the responses usually include, “Oh… So you’re a…
There are a lot of things I don’t talk about on the blog. I feel like somethings just don’t need to be talked about – I value a level of privacy – and I’m pretty modest person about a lot of things- in life and in this space. But today or share a little something with…
How about a little afternoon chat. It’s been a while since we’ve had one of these and it’s been too long. There is so much to catch up on. So why don’t you just come on over for a bit and we can chat a while?! If you came to my home today I would…
A lot has changed since we welcomed A into the world almost 8 months ago (8 months next Tuesday). My schedule has changed, my every day routine has changed, my heartbreaks more heavily for tragedy in the news and women who yearn to have a baby their can hold in their arms. Friends have changed,…
A couple of our friends recently asked for a little bit of advice on how we keep our costs low, manage our money and stay on top of the money we have so we don’t spend money that we don’t actually have. So, I decided that would make a fantastic blog post. 1. We Cut…
This summer we decided it would be fun to do the local library reading program with Miss A! We’ve been reading to her for months, literally since the very beginning! We feel it’s an important thing for her to start reading now, not only for developmental reasons but neither one of Ryan and I love…
After my heart surgery things became a little more of “high alert” status. Not just with me, but with my mom’s future pregnancies. Monitoring while she was pregnant with my brother and with my sister; it was a concern for the future children I would bear too, and if I could for that matter. If…
I never knew how much motherhood would change me, in so many ways. We’ve talked before how we don’t really watch TV, and that usually I find myself on Twitter before turning on the news. I’ve never understood tragedy and the hate that the world has in it. It’s not something my heart has every…
Movies make me think. A Lot.I’m sure that’s kind of the point, they get our thoughts going, memories flashing and our emotions amped up.That’s why we keep watching them. Movies since being a mama have become few and far between but sometimes we find the time to watch something and when we do a different…
On October 18, 2012, two days shy of a month before I had A, I had a conversation with my very dear friend Candy from Verte Photo. I told her how I couldn’t wait for A to finally be here, to hold her and have her in my arms. That’s when she told me something…
