We survived another first week.

It is the phase in our life when time slows to a crawl. Each day feels like a month with the weight of worry, fear and anticipation. And yet as the days turned into night and we gathered around the dinner table to reconnect the weight slowly lifted. I learned the hard way last year…

Back into the groove.

We’re slowly but surely getting back into the rhythm of life here. We have a new found love of sleeping though and are barely able to drag or butts out of bed before 10:00 am. Tomorrow morning will be a real shock to the system. I knew that reintegrating would be hard. It’s like the…

The opposite of lonely.

The formula for a successful blog is to combine many solitary hours with questionable mid-life-crisis-resembling  decisions and the nagging thought that you may have ruined your children.  On the contrary, if you surround yourself with the abundant love and support that comes through family and the world’s greatest friends, you will have no time whatsoever…