Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.  Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. It’s on signs at every Hobby Lobby and featured in […]

I remember countless hours as a kid being spent in bookstores and on library floors. Or Tucked in bed with a hot pad over my toes and a crisp new book in hand. Even now Tyler will find me asleep at night, a half read novel atop my face and all lights blazing.   So […]

180 days. That’s how long I have held you in my arms. How many days I have studied your eyes, which are somewhere between brown, like mine, and green, like your dads. For 6 months I have nursed you to sleep, wiped up copious amounts of spit up, and swayed as we listen to Out […]

Sticky, sweet, juice from the popsicle ran down his chin. Leaving a smile big enough to make the red stains on his white shirt the least of my concerns. We had just had the most peaceful photo session we’ve ever had. It was only fitting to end it with popsicles on the tree swing. Tennessee […]

  Secretariat, Hidden Figures and The Help.   What do these three have in common? They are all movies we watched in the hospital after Carson was born. Pretty impressive seeing as how we were only there for 24 hours. Not being able to leave gave us the perfect excuse to get our moneys worth out […]

Covid. A word loathsome to most these days and the thing that drastically changed our birth plans. First there were no visitors at the Hospital, then one, but don’t count on it. Then we couldn’t leave, then we had to leave quickly. So many plans unfolding right before our eyes. All I wanted was my […]

He grabbed the spade that was larger than his own hand. Lifting it up above his head and sending it crashing down into the bag of potting soil. Airplanes. This time it was an airplane. It easily could have been dinosaurs, racecars, motorcycles, or a number of other imaginary things we play with these days. […]

I sat at the kitchen table, full of veggie straw crumbs and the remnants of 3 turkey sandwiches. You climbed up in my lap and squeezed my arm while we watched through the archway your brothers dancing in the living room. It was one of those moments that caught me off guard. Nothing spectacular. Very […]

I sat on the floor in your nursery. The room still had a faint smell of fresh gray paint. The walls were bare. I stared at you, lying on that blanket, it had only been a week but how had you changed so much? My camera sat next to me and I could see in […]

We were supposed to travel. We were young, newly married, newly free. Four years of travel while you finished out your enlistment seemed like the thing to do. It’s what people in the military just did. Until it was time to move into our first home. You weren’t there that first day. Called away to […]