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Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero. -Marc Brown on brothers See those brothers up there? They’ve been through a lot in the last couple of months.Like most littles, they don’t do change well and we’ve had quite a bit. Their grandparents (who live with us) left for a 6 week long trip to Italy. We moved to a new house. I went away for a few days to attend a conference. We took away Luke’s {Read More}
I’ve always intended to write more about our adventures with dog adoption {and raising a puppy, specifically}, but those posts don’t ever seem to make it out of my head because I worry that they’ll seem negative. Our experience has certainly not been all bad, it’s just sometimes easier to write about the hard stuff. That said, I’m not totally sure where this post will fall on the good/bad continuum. You can tell me after you’ve read it. A couple {Read More}
Two years never seems like long at all. And then you look at it like this. {Photo on the left taken January 2011 by Jessie. Photo on the right taken December 2012 by Brooke. Love.} Linking up for Wordless Wednesday with Angry Julie Monday.
The one thing that came sharply into focus for me after last week’s Sandy Hook tragedy was how very important it is to spend quality time with my kids. It’s tough to do, though, when you’re balancing work and home and everything else in the world. Finding 5 minutes to spend with my kids is hard enough – making it meaningful is a whole other thing. I wrote about baking cookies with Joseph A YEAR AGO. That’s the last time {Read More}
Six years ago, my sister met a boy who would change the course of our lives forever. He was younger than she, but I think they had an instant connection. She tried to keep him at arm’s length, but there was just something about him that she found irresistible. Five years ago, they welcomed their son into the world on an August night with about a million people in the waiting room. That boy was so proud to be a {Read More}
