Posts Tagged reflection

more grace in the new year.

warning: parenthesis to follow. many of them. if you and i are friends, you know i talk in parenthesis as much as i write in them, so none of this will come as a shock to you. but just in case you stumbled upon my blog randomly…consider yourself warned. a really (really, really) long time […]

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i forget.

it is a difficult week. it’s only Monday. it’s not that i have too much to do, or that i’m pulled in too many directions, which is so often the case in my life. but not today. it’s just that my mind is so full. so very full. i hold this baby in my arms […]

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what it can do.

a few years ago, i wrote a blog post about Bryson. he wasn’t reading. or writing. or interested in school.  he was, like, 8. i was so very discouraged about the whole blessed thing, and i was so sick of everyone and their concern about it that i decided to do what i kept reading […]

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so irritating.

i have a splinter in the side of my right palm. it freaking hurts. i dug at it with tweezers. picked at it with my nails. poked it with a pin. i proved, once again, that i am NOT ambidextrous. i put triple antibiotic and a bandaid on it last night and went to bed, […]

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this was not supposed to be this hard any more.

there are things you just don’t see coming. things that shock you when really…no. they probably shouldn’t. i guess when we spoke the words and wrote the agreement and started living through the reality of separation and divorce…because there just was no longer any other alternative…we were in a different place. it’s funny how time […]

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back to routine

don’t you love that feeling? that “i’ve-gone-through-a-crazy-end-of-the-year-after-Christmastime-and-i-finally-feel-like-things-are-coming-back-together-again” feeling? it was touch and go there for a little while, i have to tell you. we’re on our way. school started back up today, we’re plowing through our assignments with some good extension-type activities (amazing what happens when mom actually plans rather than just winging it when the […]

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