This morning there was a damp chill in the air and heavy clouds, ill omens for our planned first trip of the year to the farmer’s market. But we hurried through breakfast and hustled the girls into clothes and into the car just as the first...
Karen Edmisten linked to this poem yesterday and reading it just about broke my heart. No, it’s not a sad poem, just so beautiful so extraordinary and yet ordinary, the grace of sunlight and babies and daily tasks transformed like water into...
I was overambitious today and boy did it come back to bite me. Sometimes I forget or at least ignore that I’m seven months pregnant and have two small children and that limits my ability to get things done. I think I’m supermom and I let...
I’ve probably mentioned that one of Bella’s favorite questions at present is: “What are you talking about?” Tonight at dinner we were talking about, well, talking. Bella: “What are you talking about?” Me:...
This is not a fully-formed or well-articulated idea but something I want to try to work through to hear myself think out loud as it were. I’m slowing reading through Kathleen Norris’ The Cloister Walk, it’s a rich book and each...
I took Bella to the pediatrician this morning for her 3-year physical. She was thirty pounds and thirty-seven inches tall. My long, leggy girl! I think this appointment was the first where she’s stood upright on the scale while the doctor...
This morning I stepped out of my comfort zone and attended a Bible study group for mothers at our parish. I’ve felt a little adrift ever since we moved here in November, knowing no one at our new parish except the two priests. Of course this...
Recently Dom showed me a trailer for the Passion of the Christ created with clips from the movie that had been mixed with the soundtrack to the new Star Trek movie. It was a very compelling remix, with many beautiful coincidences of timing, that...
Isabella loves her lo mein. Sophie really loves eating Bella’s noodles and mine. (She was actually crying and rubbing her eyes right before I took this. Then she saw the camera and out came the beaming smile.) Bella meticulously opens her...
On this day three years ago I held Isabella in my arms for the very first time and my heart overflowed with joy. Now I look back on those pictures in amazement. How can it be that little tiny baby is now this great big girl? Bella’s first...
