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  • Mother's Day musings

    Mother’s Day was lovely.  On the down side, Josh was on call.  On the up, my family was in town and we spent the whole day at two different family gatherings.  I got to…

    May 11, 2015
  • weekend lessons (part zillion)

    This past weekend was interesting.  While it was happening, it felt incredibly tough.  Yet I find myself scrolling back over my iPhone photos again and again with a sense of wistfulness.  An interesting dichotomy,…

    May 4, 2015
  • Back to Reality / May

    While CA was an amazing break from reality, I’m definitely still catching up from the experience.  Work piled up and home responsibilities (of the boring bill-paying sort) accumulated over the 5-day span.  And even…

    May 1, 2015
  • hello from CA

    I’ve been in San Diego since Thursday for a conference.  This marks my first such trip since fellowship, and the first in quite some time (2011?) where I was just going to learn, rather…

    April 28, 2015
  • rough weekend / tantrums

    (This is one of those . . . honest posts, where I sometimes wish this blog were anonymous.  But I feel like it’s important to keep things real, so here we are.) OMG.  This…

    April 20, 2015
  • Habits and the Clock

    coming atcha at 5:15am I have to say, developing new good habits — or breaking bad ones — is hard.  However, I find the process interesting in and of itself.  Even when I fail…

    April 16, 2015
  • disney 2015

    I’ll let the pictures do the talking, but here is my summary of the Disney experience with a 1 and 3 year old: 1) Rather physically challenging 2) On a moment-to-moment level, a bit…

    April 15, 2015
  • anticipation!

    We’re going to Disney World today for a 3-day weekend!  It’s our first family trip there (but likely not the last — we do live in FL, so it’s sort of a given that…

    April 10, 2015
  • You Can’t Have it All, but You Can Have a Lot

    OMDG wrote a post earlier this week that resonated with me.  I think it’s for two reasons: 1) She acknowledged the false (yet common) narrative out there that women ‘should’ be able to do everything.…

    April 8, 2015
  • happy birthday A!

    In the midst of a sad and whirlwind kind of week, Annabel turned three. Three. In many ways, this doesn’t seem all that shocking.  (She acts very 3.)  But at the same time, it does…

    April 7, 2015