It’s official, get out the allowance jar — Gracey has learned her first chore. Um, actually, Gracey just enjoys turning off the lights. OK, the truth: Gracey is purely obsessed with “clicking” the light switch, no matter what Mommy or Daddy might say. Pretty harmless, right? The amount of laughter that comes out of this […]

I’m not extremely political and neither is this blog. One thing I love, though, is watching history unfold. Documentaries, national news, biographies … it’s all extremely interesting and calming for me. There isn’t much that will convince me to turn on the TV during the day, but this week was President Obama’s Second Inauguration — […]

Welcome back, friends. 🙂 Gracey is gettin’ a little stir crazy! I’m looking forward to April (maybe March??) when I can take Gracey outside for walks and playtime. But while the temps are in the single digits, we’ll stick to laps around the house in her push car and … jumping on the bed! She […]

Oh gosh. This girl is the end of me. THE. END. Goodbye to all the preconceived correct and incorrect judgments I made about having children. (Most of them were incorrect.) Hello to my heart and soul walking around outside my body — the good, the bad, the difficulties and the joys. This child is strong, […]

One year old. We made it. 🙂 One year ago today, we met the love of our lives. It was the absolute best day — a day I’m not quite able to express with words. It was the day we realized what love truly is — my heart became a million pieces instead of one. […]

Truthfully, there’s nothing I can say. Is it because I’m now a parent? Does the unspeakable news pierce a place in my heart I never knew I had? Yes. Those children are everyone’s children. That town is everyone’s town. Their stories are our stories. This week, I’ve found myself finding excuses to withdraw. Forgoing get-togethers […]