I've seen the movie Forrest Gump probably 500 times. At LEAST 500. It's one of my favorite movies, and my dad loved Tom Hanks movies, so we watched it a lot. Watching it on Netflix with Spencer yesterday, I got kind of emotional. I don't know if it's because I have a child now, and… Continue reading Letting life happen.
We took Spencer to the playground after work today. Much to his delight, someone had brought two gigantic play balls and left them unattended. He immediately started yelling "ball, ball" and ran over to one. I apologized to the other mom there, but she said the balls were already there when she got here and… Continue reading Thoughts on fear.
I didn't have a mom growing up, and as much as I loved my dad, I didn't always feel very connected with him emotionally. My very favorite relative was always my Grandma Donna. She lived two hours away from us and we would talk on the phone every single night. I remember before cell phones,… Continue reading Grandma.
It's been a busy month for us so far, as evidenced by my slowed down posting. Well, what's new? I started selling on eBay again over the past couple weeks. I took a long break from it, but finally got my motivation back. I'll make another post soon about the fun things I've sold. It's… Continue reading Busy bees.
We got married four years ago. Up until our wedding day, we lived in separate apartments, with separate bills, separate groceries, separate beds, and separate schedules. We spent a lot of time together, obviously, but it wasn't the same as sharing a life and home together. We both had roommates in college, so we had… Continue reading Learning to love differences.
1) Baby clothes . We got a lot of clothes at our baby showers, and I took all the tags off and washed them before he was born. Well, he was an exceptionally large newborn and didn't fit in his newborn clothes, and only wore his 3 month clothes for a few weeks. Since a… Continue reading More lessons.
Having a child of my own was pretty eye-opening. I feel like I learned a lot, but haven't really taken the time to reflect much on it. So I'm going to take the time. Here are a few things I learned about marriage in our first year as parents: We had to depend on each… Continue reading Lessons from the first year: marriage.
This week I was doing some spring cleaning, which included throwing out junk from the closet. I came across this ratty shoebox that I've carried around since childhood, which holds a lifetime of cards (birthday, get well, etc). I took the time to go through them. Some cards looked familiar... "oh! I remember grandma sent… Continue reading People come and go.
Sometimes when things feel overwhelming, it's hard to remember that this is only one chapter of our life. When we got married 4 years ago, I brought over $100,000 of student loan debt with me. Jordan had about $20,000 of his own. Within our first year of marriage, both of our old clunker cars bit… Continue reading This is just one chapter.
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