Keep Calm and Have A Cupcake. Enjoy the moments, kid, because in the end they add up to a life. What If This Is As Good As It Gets? January 4, 2013. 2012 was personally a good year for me. Among other good things, it brought the birth of my baby girl. But out in the world, the end of 2012 was a snarling mass of bad news and even worse news.

The light left me, but not the memory of its glow. 8211; Lauren Slater,. Posted in quotations and poetry. I shared this picture, and these words, on Instagram. It was a wonderful day, though not a perfect one. Is there any other kind of wonderful? I thought a lot on Sunday about my own matrilineage.

The Mom Stays in the Picture. I am a wife, a daughter, and a mother to four children as well as two crazy dogs. I am a Leo and decidedly ENFP. I consume way too much Diet Coke and French macarons. Also, because I am too disorganized to actually fill out baby books. This will have to do. The Mom Stays in the Picture. I am not perfect to look at and I am not perfect to love, but I am perfectly their mother.

The Wisdom of it Being About the Journey. Saturday Lessons on LEGOs and Saying Yes. All the Flavors sad to happy to wow. Posted on May 7, 2015. Each of my daughters has been exactly who she was since I felt her first flutter in my belly. Today they are very bit as much distinctly who they are as ever. Today I wanted to share a post I wrote over at The Mid.

Sunday, February 4, 2018. The moon illuminated the night,. I watched with longing as. I crawled away from dark places. Years of rage and silence,. The trees listened to my cries,. Their tales of sorrow and triumph. Lessons learned from failure,. The surroundings faded into a blur. Laying next to me,.

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Reviews and Supporters of Barnstorming. 13 But the tax collector stood at a distance. We want to believe we are better, special, untouched by the sins of the world.