last night my husband and six other adults were confirmed fully roman catholic. four women were baptized and all seven adults received communion and confirmation. holy saturday mass began with a fire outside our parish. the entire congregation carried lit candles into our blacked-out church for a transformation from dark to light. while the entire…
last year i felt called to read the bible all the way through. i have read it before. the first time cover to cover in it’s entirety. and while it was of course beautiful and powerful, this time i wanted to absorb and understand more of what i was reading. i found the bible in…
anthony. i stand with you and our children today in the same spot where on my thirtieth birthday i said YES. right where we later said I DO. where we came when we adopted snoop, and where we visited when we were pregnant. this is the spot we watched our babies splash. the place i…
Im not about that “18 summers” philosophy. We don’t just have 18 summers with our children. On the other hand we aren’t guaranteed even the summer in front of us.
i have had this mug for as long as i can remember. it may have been my mother’s from her childhood. we may have “borrowed” it from a rented shore house. the details of the mug’s origins are fuzzy. what i do know is i always have loved this mug. so much so that instead…
i took this photo at sunset on the last day of your third year. tomorrow morning you will be four.
on my 19th birthday the boy i was dating surprised me with a flying lesson at our local small airport. until this morning, one week before i turn 37, it was the absolute greatest birthday gift i ever received. today, almost two decades later, my husband finally blew that gift out the water. this morning, with…
a bright and cheerful family porch session on a gorgeous may afternoon.
ringwood manor grounds tour
happy second birthday to my bird. my second baby. my daughter. inside this last year i watched you become janet. my fiery, determined, brilliant baby girl. while this last year has certainly been a weird one (remind me to tell you about the worldwide pandemic one day) .
