drivinggood music playingdropped off my daughterwith good friends who love herand love meminutes alonewith lyrics lifting meabove this momentlife is goodlove is goodthis moment is goodjoy bubbles over mehope bubbles through medeep breath of peaceexhalevoice...

I'm 'round the corner from anything that's realI'm across the road from hopeI'm under a bridge in a rip tideThat's taken everything I call my ownOne step closer to knowingOne step closer to knowingI'm on an island at a busy intersectionI can't go forward. I can't turn...

Scrolling down my blog, I realize once again that I SUCK at brevity.So this is going to be my shortest post EVER! (I'm trying REALLY hard to resist another paragraph or three.)

My baby turns 3 today. Three years ago, this little bundle of personality entered our lives and we haven’t been the same since.Maddie, you are beautiful. You’re our little superstar. You have so much energy and “joie de vivre” you keep us all entertained. You...

Julie doesn't have to get another filling. That's a relief. That poor girl has been cursed with more cavities and subsequent fillings in her short life than I've had in my much longer life. The dentist didn't bother filling this one because it's about to fall out...

I forget sometimes how lucky I am...1. He cooks supper almost every night. I climb off the bus, walk down the street, walk in the door, and there he is, greeting me, with the smell of supper wafting from the stove behind him. There's almost always a towel tossed...

"Hello, hello. There's a pace vall vertigo."You haven't LIVED until you've seen Maddie sing U2. You may THINK you've lived. You may even think you've seen other 2 year olds sing cute songs so you don't need to, but you would be wrong. There is nothing cuter than...

It still doesn’t seem fair. It doesn’t seem fair that my kids won’t hear him make strange cat-like noises when he’s lying on the couch on the edges of sleep but still trying to interact with his grandchildren. It doesn’t seem fair that they’ll grow up and not remember...

Today is D Day. I'm not sure what the D stands for in this context, but it has that certain ring to it - a monumental day that you've been building up to.Maybe I should call it P Day. It's the day I meet Paul, my Mom's new boyfriend. Everyone else in the family met...

They want me to be an elder. Someone at church actually thinks I'm grown up enough to be called an "elder". The thought makes me quake in my boots for more than one reason: 1) I'm too YOUNG! I haven't even successfully figured out how to be a full-fledged ADULT yet -...