Archive for June, 2009

I Am

As moms (and dads), there are hours, days, weeks that we ignore ourselves, one day running into the next, the needs of little children taking precedent. These are good times and bad, time we give willingly to laugh, wipe tears, teach, support, struggle, lose patience, and love. It is exciting to watch the changes, the [...]

A Girl on the Rise

She walked down the aisle, eyes searching the crowd, looking for us, her steps in rhythm with Pomp and Circumstance. When her eyes met ours, a smile erupted on her face, beaming pride, excitement brewing. She was a girl on the rise. She sat on those stairs, and her gaze never broke ours. She was [...]

A Friday night with creepy Jesus hippie

So, money has gotten quite tight in the Down to Earth household.  With unexpected chimney disasters, the necessary purchase of a car, and another batch of medical/dental bills piling up (really, I am so tired of medical bills.  I thought we finally had good insurance.  UGGGGGG.)  there has been very little to do, well, anything. [...]

A post about a girl finding her passion, preschool mothers, leeches,…. oh, and flying dead rodents

This time last spring, I was getting annoyed.  Very annoyed.  Sweetie wanted NOTHING to do with being outside (unless it was swimming at the community pool).  It was always too hot, too sunny, she would rather sit still and play dolls, blocks, etc.  I was going out of my mind.  After all, I LOVE being [...]

And poof….

I am shaking.  Literally shaking. My love.  My passion.  My memories.  My children.  My work. My life. Gone. All of it. The backup drive that held ALL of my photos, has died.  Ben has wiped the main drive clean.  I should have had a backup of the backup.  I should have added many more photos [...]

I don’t know if I should be proud or run the other direction

So, my husband was going over analytics of both his and my blog tonight.   If you searched for the following, you would find his blog in the top 10 sites in google: Butcher and porn star (number 3) :  Why in the hell would you search for this?  That is just creepy. You didn’t [...]

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