Entries from March 2008

March 31, 2008

Mission: Birthday Party (Accomplished!)

Saturday was C’s second birthday. It is amazing how quickly time seems to fly now that I have children. They grow up at an astounding rate. It was so strange to have my little baby telling me who he wanted to come to his birthday party. Who gave him permission to have an opinion on [...]

March 31, 2008

Protected: Birthday Pictures

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March 30, 2008

Who Are You?

Despite a day full of church and family activities, I was determined not to miss another Sunday in my goal to explore faith more fully. I sat down with this month’s issue of my church’s magazine, the Ensign, and was drawn to the title of one particular article, Your Divine Heritage by Elder Robert C. Oaks. [...]

March 28, 2008

Pieces of Childhood

Rain, rain, go away
Come again sometime in May
Or this flood won’t go away.
 
The water in my backyard had been receding. Then, it rained buckets again last night. I think the flooding is now worse than it was initially. Add to that the fact that it is scheduled to rain almost every day this coming week, [...]

March 26, 2008

SAD and Smiles

Last night, as I was cleaning up after dinner, Sean called to me. E~ had smiled at him. Twice. Not the fluttering smiles that come when he first falls asleep. Oh no, these were intentional, wide awake smiles. And they were for him. While I was out of the room.
No fair.
I rushed into the room, [...]

March 26, 2008

Protected: You Must’ve Been a Beautiful Baby

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March 25, 2008

We’ve Got Pictures!

But I’m not posting them tonight (how mean was that?).
Mom and Matt are back in Hanoi with Quinn. They have a good internet connection and lots of photos to send home. We have already gotten some of them. Quinn is adorable and, apparently, a very happy little boy.
Anyhow, the point of this post is [...]

March 25, 2008

Adoption Update!

For those of you following along at home, my mom hasn’t been able to post an update. But she was able to get a few emails to Elaine.
The baby is officially theirs! I have a new nephew (again, officially–I’ve considered him my nephew for many months now). I am so happy! After all of the [...]

March 25, 2008

The Best Laid Plans

I am lucky to have a husband who is also an involved daddy. On Friday, as I was working furiously to finish a baby carrier, he was planning for Easter. He pulled out a little over half of the four-dozen eggs in our refrigerator and boiled them so everything would be ready for coloring eggs [...]

March 22, 2008

What’s Next, A Plague of Locusts?

OK, so two weeks ago was “The Great Blizzard of 2008.” Then, earlier this week, it rained.
I mean, it rained.
As in, gather the animals and build a boat.
OK, maybe not quite that bad, but bad enough that it flooded my back yard. In the 20+ years that I have lived either in this house or [...]