A record of the incessant and trivial chatter running through my head.
Monthly Archives: June 2014.jpg) We have a baby book for Charlie. My mom bought it for me before my belly even showed the slightest hint of our expectant blessing. It is yellow and green with a quaint little giraffe on the front. I still remember taping our first and then our second ultrasound onto it’s pages as we awaited […] .jpg) We just returned home from our 4th consecutive night of baseball. And by “just” I mean an hour and a half ago. It takes that long for kids to be bathed, showered, snacked, tooth-brushed, put to bed and put to bed again after descending the stairs for a last conversation, hug, drink of water, ‘good-night’ […] .jpg) Just under 36 years ago a tiny baby girl with a bald head was placed into the hands of a bearded man with thick, dark, curly hair–hair so high it raised his height measurement about 6 inches. It wasn’t the first time he would be called “Daddy”, but it was the first time he would […] .jpg) Five or six mornings a week, I wake up before the sun peeks over the horizon and follow the same routine. I shake the sleepiness from my body and kick my feet over the side of the bed. I grab the clothes I laid out the night before and do my best to pull them […] .jpg) Roughly 5,000 days ago, a beautiful thing happened. It wasn’t like any ordinary thing, it was like when Adam met Eve for the first time. Or when Mickey finally met Minnie. Summer and Chad met, and I am sure that there was a chorus of angels singing all around them. While their story has been […] |
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