The last time we had family pictures taken (thanks again, Butterfly Portrait Studios), I came home with this gem.
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A picture that embodied excellence to me.
A reminder.
A challenge.
A portrait of a good mother.
The mother I am, because that is me in the picture.
But more than the mother I am . . . the mother I want to be. ...continue reading
Do I blog in winter?
I wish.
I was supposed to be blogging every other week this year. I made it to April. Or was it March? And I managed to eke out a few posts after E was born.
And then, silence.
Not silence here, not in my house, certainly not.
Just silence on the blog.
And even now, I literally wiped my wet hands dry and left an overflowing counter of dirty dishes to perch quickly on my chair at the computer and write a few words. ...continue reading
Once upon a time, I liked to write. So I started a blog. And I wrote for a while. Then I had babies. And I quit writing.
"I wish I still blogged," I told Eric a few nights ago. "I'd love to read it in five years. Or fifty."
So here’s a post about nothing really . . . nothing but the little boys who aren’t quite my everything, but just about. 🙂 ...continue reading
