Posted in Marital bliss, Once upon a time on Aug 24th, 2009
So, almost eleven years ago we went on our first date. Today we’ve been married for seven years. SEVEN YEARS PEOPLE. That’s not like a world record or anything but figuring I’m only 28 and we’ve been married for SEVEN, together for ELEVEN years that’s like, totally, a really, really long time. LIKE REALLY, REALLY, [...]
Posted in Marital bliss, Once upon a time on Aug 19th, 2009
In just a few days Kevin and I will have been married for seven years, together for eleven in September. In order to commemorate the amazing fact that neither of us has given up on the other’s stupid ass I would like to take a moment and tell you our story. Let me start at [...]
Posted in Once upon a time on Jan 5th, 2009
What can I say about 2008 that could sum it up with the appropriate emotion? Probably nothing. Instead I have decided to re-blog some posts from this year that help define who I was and where I am. Sometimes it’s a lot of fun to re-read my own posts. I see-saw between laughing hysterically at [...]
Posted in Once upon a time, Pictures on Sep 13th, 2008
Ten years ago today, around 2am, Kevin and I decided to make it official and admit we both wanted this thing to go somewhere. Which is only a big deal because I was 17 and a senior in high school and he was 21 and a senior in college. Details, details. We had spent the [...]
Posted in Birth, Once upon a time, Pregnancy, Randomness, Soapboxes + rants on Sep 1st, 2008
A few weeks ago a blog buddy of mine wrote a post about her struggle with post partum depression. I remember writing something like “I am so glad I read this. I can’t write something like that on my blog or people would freak out and check up on me constantly.” Then I thought, who [...]
Posted in Funny, Once upon a time, Pregnancy on Aug 31st, 2008
[if you haven't already, read this first] …Kevin was just pulling into town. I had known for five whole days that I was pregnant and had somehow managed not to spill the beans to him over the phone. I thought all week about how I would tell him. Would he be as excited/nervous/thankful as I [...]
Posted in Funny, Once upon a time, Pregnancy on Aug 26th, 2008
…Kevin left Houston for San Antonio. We had just celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary. A little while after he left something weird happened that made me think maybe it wasn’t so crazy to think I was pregnant. I drove to the store with butterflies in my stomach and bought some pregnancy tests, probably my 10th [...]
Posted in Big days, Kith and kin, Once upon a time, Pictures, Randomness on May 22nd, 2008
Today was the 14th anniversary of my father’s death. It was special for many reasons this year, the most important being able to introduce Avelyn to her Grandad. It is always hard to visit the grave site, but harder not to be there. I know it’s stupid, but fourteen years later and sometimes I’m still surprised to find myself thinking [...]
Posted in Big days, Birth, Catching up, Kith and kin, My Little Lady, Once upon a time, Pictures on Apr 24th, 2008
Well, Avelyn is officially 6 days old today. I still can’t believe it. Right now she is sleeping on my chest and I cannot fathom how this perfectly formed, beautiful person came to be mine. She is absolutely the best thing that has ever happened to me; already I can’t imagine our lives without her. [...]
