1. Looking at photos of my wedding day. Not only were my parents there, but also some of my favorite people in the world plus, it was the day I married my best friend (not to be confused with the best friend I mention in #9). 2. Anytime it’s just me and Lucas in the…
Trust me, I hate hearing about other people’s vacations just as much as the next gal, so I’ll just share the highlights from ours…. In case you missed it, we spent last week in North Carolina attending a wedding in Lake Lure and stayed at the inn where parts of Dirty Dancing was filmed. We…
If I had known the last time I saw you was going to be the last time I’d ever see you… … I would have hugged you a little tighter and a lot longer. … I would have studied your face memorizing each and every line. … I would have reached for your hand and…
Every now and then I have an undeniable and almost desperate need to be with family, members of my parents family that is. Specifically my father’s family. I want to talk about my father, ask questions and hear anecdotes about when he was a boy, a young man, how he was as a brother, an…
I started participating in Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop over a year ago. My first entry was a post called Second Chances, in which I wrote about my wedding day. I loved everything about that day at the time. Now my memories are bittersweet because the day after my wedding was the last day I saw…
Three years ago, I married my partner, lover and friend. In just three short years, we have experienced the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. A month and a half after we got married, my father-in-law underwent heart surgery for a congenital heart defect. He made it through with flying colors and today…
I am finally doing something that my friend Natalie over at Mommy of a Monster (I Mean Toddler) and Infant Twinshas been encouraging me to do for a while now; enter Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop. This meme is hosted by Mama’s Losin’ It each week she offers different prompts to chose from and you write…
I believe that everything is better with music and I love all different types; from bubble gum pop and jazz to Jay-Z and Radiohead (okay, Radiohead is one of your dad’s favorite bands, not mine, but I do have a two of their songs on my iPod). Music is an incredibly powerful thing; it has…
