On Friday, Brett and I celebrated our sixth wedding anniversary.
In many ways, it feels like we’ve been married a lot longer than six years. I mean, we’ve been through a LOT in our six years of marriage, and we were so young when we got married. I didn’t feel young then, but I see it [...]
In a recent post, I mentioned that we’ve been dealing with more frustration and stress lately. Well, without going into too much detail, it all came to a head last week, and Brett was laid off from his job.
I’m not going to delve into the specifics, but it’s been kind of a long, drawn-out process [...]
It’s been quite the year for us, full of events that were made up of really hard things intertwined with really good things.
My pregnancy with Elanor and her birth was the first hard/good thing to happen. She is amazing, and wonderful, and definitely one of the highlights of the year: the ultimate good thing. But [...]
I remember writing last year’s Thanksgiving post, and feeling a huge sense of awe at how blessed we were at that time. I wrote that our previous year had been pretty bad (and it had) but that I was so thankful for where we were at that moment.
This year, I feel that sentiment even more [...]
Six months ago today, I almost died. It seems so strange to me now to write that. I have so little memory of that time, and I feel okay most of the time now, so the reality of what happened is difficult for me to grasp.
For my family, though, it’s still all too real. I [...]
I’m tired these days. Between daylight saving time (and Elanor’s crappy sleep as a result), Brett working very long hours, me trying to fit my at-home work in around the rest of our lives (which means I’m usually doing it from 9 or 10 p.m. until midnight or even 1 a.m.), and Elanor having become [...]
I’ve mentioned before that one of my biggest struggles with the whole heart thing has been the fact that I remember nothing of the incident itself and next to nothing of the two or three weeks that followed.
I recently re-read the Lord of the Rings books, and there’s a part in the Fellowship of the [...]
I can’t believe I haven’t posted about this yet; I keep forgetting to say anything and now it’s been a while so it hasn’t been in the forefront of my mind.
Anyway, a couple of weeks ago, I had an echocardiogram and an appointment with the cardiologist. I’d called because I hadn’t been feeling well, and [...]
Dear Elanor,
Today you are six months old — a whole half-year!
I was just looking back at the last monthly letter I wrote, and was confronted with a picture of you on our trip to Denver. You were so little, and despite how I thought you were so big, you were still such a little baby [...]
Thanks for all the comments and suggestions on my last post. I have really been trying to take it easy and not overdo things, but it’s an ongoing challenge, so we’ll see how it continues. Thankfully a couple of friends are going to come over in the next few days just to help with getting [...]
