Monthly Archives: October 2010

He turned 5.  My beautiful boy turned 5.  To him a birthday marks a day of excitement and celebration.  A day when the house is decorated, family gathers, presents are received, and candles are blown out.  All of that is true. But for me it marks the day when my life was forever changed. . […]

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Today a gentleman told me that he is disappointed about the way his life turned out.  He shared about all the goals and dreams he had that he had not been able to accomplish.  He talked about his job and how he thought he would be doing something very different and more fulfilling.  He pointed […]

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 . . . that’s a quote by William Cowper.  I like it. Grief is a funny thing.  It creeps up on you when you least expect it and rushes at you with the force of a 350 pound football player.  You want to jump aside or at least run the other way, but it comes […]

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Ah, my little blog. . . we meet again. If you knew how excited I get to rest my eyes on the fresh “new post” screen on the blogger page you would laugh and probably tell me to get a life.  I bask in the glow of the blue and white screen and get this […]

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Since Chanelle’s birthday party was the day before her birthday we let her pick what she wanted to do on her birthday.  She wanted to go to the zoo. . . so that’s what we did. . . Sometimes, when we are all together I like to slow down and lag behind just so I […]

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