Is it insane that I love the smell of my son so much that all I want to do when I hold him is bury my face in his hair and breathe him ( Read more... )

i can't believe i haven't been online in a month!!!!!!! the longer i'm away the less draw lj has for me. strangely the thing i miss the most is the documentation of my own life, so i'm here doing it, because i know that i'll appreciate it later. i can't believe how much more i remember of ben's life between the ages of 1 and 2.5 than between 2.5 ( Read more... )

This was originally supposed to be a photo of all four grandchildren, but by the time we got the camera out and were ready to take the shot, Kaela and Cameron had wandered off.

So it's just Ryland and Ben. Taken some time last fall at Grandma's house. Note the adorableness of Ben's blond hair.


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For reasons that are much too long and complicated to discuss at the moment, Stephen and I dragged our old iMac computer out of the storage shed last night. I was iffy on whether it was going to work, due to the intense dampness in there. It hasn't been turned on in nearly a year and a half. It took awhile of restarting and a few boot-up CDs (we ( Read more... )