Category: family

  • I think I get it now

    I think I get it now

    Baby J’s FIRST birthday – June 2015 At some point everyday, I think, “I want to write about (insert whatever lightbulb that just went off in my brain) today!” And I have every great intention to sit down after the girls are asleep and do so.  But then bedtime takes longer than anticipated – or…

  • Writing and hiking and a tiny photographer

    Writing and hiking and a tiny photographer

    I love to write. I really do. I know you can’t tell by the frequency in which I post on this blog of mine. And my journal sure as hell can’t tell based on the fact that I picked it up yesterday to write and discovered the last entry was in 2011! BUT I am…

  • Everything is changing

    Everything is changing

    Birdie + Sakura Bloom = Xmas tree hunting Change. Some love it. Some don’t. I need it. Routine, schedules, repetitive motion is all mundane to me. It’s poison to my soul and my creativity. I start to feel claustrophobic and stifled. I feel stuck. I feel confined to an imaginary box. I feel held back.…

  • Long time, no write

    Long time, no write

    Wow! It’s been a WHILE since I posted on here. Why do I always feel like I’m saying that when I write all. the. time. I say it on my business blog. I say it in my journal. I say it on my personal blogS….yes, that’s plural. I am a writer at heart. I feel…

  • Daddy

    Daddy

    Daddy is home. Thank god. I really didn’t know how many more single mommy days I had in me. They tell us in post-deployment briefs that there is always an adjustment time when your partner returns home after months apart. You have your routine, whatever it is, whether it involves kiddos or not, and it’s…