Archive for January, 2008
Money. In short, we have none. Which isn’t the case at all, really…I just can’t touch any of it. Within a few short weeks our savings account will have enough money to go out and buy my dream car in cash; and then some. As we march forward with construction plans, […]
Last Wednesday at 6:59 AM, my little boy turned three. Chris was off to work early and I proceed through my morning as we prepared to head out for the day. It was a quiet morning; the ones I dream of. The kind of morning where things are going so smoothly that […]
Not unlike the story about the fisherman who caught a fish “this big”, who after a week had caught the same fish “THIS BIG”, motherhood has a way of blurring memories about our young geniuses. It’s always our intention to note our children’s accomplishments without bragging too much, and yet somehow so much is […]
As I walked out of my meeting tonight greeted by a half-inch of snow on the car, no one ever would have guessed that yesterday was one of the most beautiful January days Seattle has ever had. The sun was warm on my face, a glimpse of the blue sky that we’ve missed so […]
As I sat down to write our Near Year’s card this year, it dawned on me how relatively uneventful 2007 has been. Stacked up against the cross-country moves, births, weddings, jobs and homes of previous years, this year has seemed almost calm. Still, we managed to keep busy enough that the year has […]