I have come to this place where I write my heart and preserve my family’s memories only forty-four times this year. I mourn the loss of my ...

Dear Son, Yesterday, just minutes after you finished your race, Conrad’s mom approached me.  “Are you Chris’ mom?” she said.  I answered y...

The first week of school was the last week our neighborhood pool stayed open. Temperatures were in the mid-nineties so we avoided homework ...

Yesterday the smallest Lee went to Kindergarten! He woke up really early, proclaiming that he was no longer nervous, just really excited. ...

I feel like this picture represents me facing Back-to-School. Eyes closed, nose plugged, just waiting for it to engulf us. This Summer has...

Gulp. That’s me swallowing. Trying to push down the giant lump in my throat because I have one year left with this boy. One more year to l...

I used to be a great blogger. Not that the content of my blog was great, but I wrote five days a week. I was devoted. Writing was just part...

I was just telling my mom yesterday that Instagram is killing blogs. It is a perfect form of micro blogging – one picture with a small capti...

As far as days go, yesterday was big for our family. We started our morning out with Hannah at the home of our Stake Patriarch where s...

Today my RedDog Soren is twelve years old. I blinked and he's twelve. I have always marked our time here in Virginia by his age. He...

Last week we had our final Queen's Dish of the season and the theme was All American Barbeque. I thought about calling my father-i...

This was Owlie yesterday. Working so hard on his Legos whilst donning seriously handsome hair. He makes the funniest faces. I...

 Time is a beast right now with the end of school and two major projects I've had to spend most of my days working on. I'm deter...

Almost twenty years ago my sweet Hubby and I stood alone in a breathtakingly beautiful room. From the ceiling hung an enormous crystal ch...

It seems that whenever we are at the beach we spot dragonflies. Such busy creatures, flitting speedily to and fro, landing for just a ...

Owlie was SO, SO excited to head to the beach this year. I think last year it finally clicked with him how fun it could be to spend a d...

We just got back from our eleventh year at the Delaware Shore over Memorial Day weekend. This annual trip has cemented itself in my heart ...