Tag Archives: Birthday Blog

I’ve spent the last hour reading, re-reading, reliving, re-experiencing Meadow’s birth, life, and her journey into the world. Certainly, her entrance into the world isn’t one of heroic proportions.  It’s not a story noticed by anyone.  I have no war stories or battle wounds to tell about.  Her entrance into the world was, thankfully, unremarkable […]

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It’s hard to believe.  So hard to believe. It’s been 10 years. Ten years since our lives changed.  Ten years since our hearts were cracked wide open and a kind of love we never knew existed was born.  Ten years since the world looked different–more beautiful and more scary all at the same time. It’s […]

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Every year I do this.  Every year, on this day, I come to this space and I shut out all the noise and remember.  Every year on this day, I block out everything else and I allow my mind the room to think back on the remarkable memories of this day. I remember the dark […]

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We do life together. We parent together. We run together. We work together. We eat together. We sleep together (literally, we sleep in the same bed, so get your mind out of the gutter). But as I continue to age, she continues to mature. She continues to find herself, stretch herself, grow herself, become comfortable […]

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