Reasonable Resilience

I couldn't resist posting this picture of Grace. A little mommy already. Yes those are pumps she's wearing. You know I always do the dishes in heels...Like mother like daughter;)

I've been forgetting what day it is. I think we need a break. I can't keep everything straight and I'm not good at keeping a planner. I need to start training myself to write things down and look at the plan for each day. Any suggestions for a non-planner needing to plan?

Have you seen this ? Maybe I should be a movie critic. I went through every possible emotion during this movie I can't even begin to explain it. How can you go through life feeling like you are in control ? There is no way to be in control . So this movie, it's, it's... great . I figured it out too. Eric , my husband, he's my exception . He isn't the rule . I guess you'll have to watch it, oh and let me know when you do because I will watch it with you. I heart movies. (I would make that little heart symbol if I could, but I honestly have no idea how to)

I've been watching our young neighbors pack up their little house much like ours and put everything they own in a Ryder truck to move just about 20 miles north. These young people have been living next to us for 4 of the 5 years we have lived in our house. They have seen both kids from the days we brought them home from the hospital and have become best friends with Lucy, our two year old lab (I think she might like them more than us but that's beside the point). This young couple keeps to themselves, but are friendly in conversation when we are playing outside with our kids and throwing Frisbees with Lucy . As I type they pull their belongings out of our little neighborhood and travel to their new home to unpack it all and start new and fresh. I don't know their names and am only sure that the young girl in a dental hygienist and her boyfriend works in a design field . The thing about them is that they aren't that young. They aren't much younger than us, the...

I would like to introduce you to the Barlow Girls. These girls are amazing and I have grown to love them. I only wish that this awesome christian music was available when I was young and impressionable. Maybe I wouldn't have been jaded by Alanis and Fiona ( but who doesn't enjoy a little scream fest now and again? GIRLS RULE!) The music that comes forth from these three is something I could only wish to be able to produce. If you would today, or someday when you have time go to their website here and take a look around. Read the About section and find some insipring news about the songs on their new album Love & War. They started out gearing their music towards younger audiences, but have found that mothers, fathers and the like are relating to their meaningful words. I hope that you will take some time and look. You can listen to their entire album on the love & war music player. Here are my favs: Beautiful Ending Our Worlds Collide Love is Marching Time for You to G...

Update: If you came to read about hating Mckmama I will just send you here to tell you how I feel Let's be HONEST! _______________________________________ Okay, so I found out that when searching google for mckmama or mckmama haters you find my blog. What the? I just thought I would mention that my intention is not to hate on or even really to have that much of an opinion on the issue. I thought it important to say that I'm not a mckmama basher and that I actually really like reading her blog and reading on the blogfrog as well. I think maybe people could be swayed in one direction when searching something and not really knowing the whole story or reading further into the writers posts.There was one post that aired my feelings of being upset by something that I read on mckmamas blog, but as a woman and a mother I can say that my emotions can get the best of me at times and that I have turned a corner and know that I'm not alone in my decision...