Today, Math Man and I celebrate 7 years of wedded bliss. Saturday we went out for our “date,” but today has been a normal day. One filled with work, diapers, laundry, coaching, meetings, and now the two of us on our respective couches working (again) on our laptops. I’d have it no other way. We … Read more
My AtoZChallenge got a bit of a late start. I’ll be catching up the first two days, but by day 3, I’ll be right on schedule! A is for Anniversary. I’ve been married to Math Man for 7 years now. For our very first anniversary, we went on our Honeymoon Part Deux and had a … Read more
The last two and a half weeks have been a blur. It actually feels like we’ve been through several months instead of just 19 days. It also appears that we aren’t finished. Let me paint you a picture: Day 1: Wednesday On a Wednesday night, almost three weeks ago, Baby Diva (8 months) struggled to … Read more
With four kids, one under the age of one who still depends on mama to eat, it’s hard for Math Man and me to find time away from home. In fact, as I type this, I realize it is going on 9 months since the last time we did something alone — unless you count … Read more
Baby Diva will be 7 months old in one week. That will mean that it will have been longer than 7 months since Math Man and I have been alone for more than just sleeping in our bed — and even then, we aren’t really alone as the monitors that surround us allow us to … Read more
Welcome to a Secret Subject Swap. This week 16 brave bloggers picked a secret subject for someone else and were assigned a secret subject to interpret in their own style. Today we are all simultaneously divulging our topics and submitting our posts. My topic this month: One will love you unconditionally, but you can never … Read more
Verse to ponder: But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. Mark 10: 6-8 I talk … Read more
Verse to ponder: And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. Colossians 3:14 (ESV) Yesterday was an ugly day. If you’ve been keeping up, I sort of fell off the tired-pregnant-mom cliff and lost my mind for the evening. My family sort of tiptoed away backwards with big doe … Read more
Verse to ponder: Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, … Read more
I’m participating in the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge. Today’s letter is D. Some people believe in luck. Others believe in mere circumstance. And yet others, as I do, believe that there is a Higher Being helping to put things in place with a larger plan than what we could ever imagine. Not … Read more