Hello, Friends!

So the new journal is officially up and running.  We made the decision to keep this one private or "friends only."  I vacillated between public and private because I know that means not everybody who follows us here will follow us to the next journal, but we thought it was the best choice in the end.  I've sent friend adds to every ( Read more... )

Before we left Seattle, I remember having lunch with my then boss and co-workers and we got on the subject of children and parenting. At this time, parenting was a far-off plan for Al and me, not a reality. I remember saying something like, “I think being a mother means sacrificing everything for your children.” In my mind, a good mom was one ( Read more... )

May 5th?  My last entry was really May 5th?  That's more than a month and a half ago!  I wish we had the technology to send emails and write journal entries directly from our brains, while we're doing dishes and other mundane tasks, because that is usually when I'm sifting through all of my thoughts and thinking about people I haven't talked to in ( Read more... )

These are stills from a video that another teacher at Alice's school took (she also did the cute layout).  She used the video in a presentation she gave about augmentative communication devices in the school setting.  I absolutely died over the "Friends" one because it so captures what I've been gushing about as far as how kind and loving Alice's ( Read more... )

If I had a dollar for every time somebody told me that I needed to take time for myself, we would be a lot further out of debt!  In the battlefields of newborn Isabelle and toddler Alice, my doctor wrote me a prescription for 1-2 hours a day of time I devoted only to me, if even just to sleep.  The therapist I saw back in 2007 challenged me to ( Read more... )

I have a couple of introspective entries that are taking me a long time to finish, but I cannot put off talking about Alice’s awesomeness any longer!  (By the way, did you know that “awesomeness” is an actual word meaning “so impressive or overwhelming as to inspire a strong feeling of admiration or fear”?  It always sounded like a made-up surfer ( Read more... )

More pictures!  I found this on my phone last night... this girl keeps me laughing--and on my toes--nonstop!!


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Journal, journal, journal, I have so much to tell you!  First, though, here are a few pictures I pulled off my phone:


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