It’s hard to know how you will react in the midst of a crisis.  It’s hard to know what you will look back on and remember having learned from it.  It’s hard to know if you will ever be able to see the good in it. On the morning of Wednesday, October 22nd, a man […]

I met Priya for the first time on a warm Saturday afternoon in June.  She was asleep in the living room when I first walked in and she looked like nothing short of a porcelain doll. She was about ten days old at the time. I met my husband for the first time just a […]

I remember the weekend before Hudson was born;  It was a beautifully mild Sunday morning and we were driving to church.  The roads were empty and the bright sun beamed down on us from above.  As I looked out my window, I saw a set of parents pushing a stroller in the distance.  I rested […]

Nothing changed more when we had our children than our sense of time!  Time, suddenly became this commodity.  This form of currency that we were constantly bargaining for.  I actually laughed out loud one afternoon when I found myself pleaded with my six week old son for ten minutes to have a shower!  That is […]

There are few things in this life more special than celebrating your first Christmas as a new parent.  For all the joy and excitement that comes with the holiday throughout childhood…bringing your own child into the experience trumps it all. Hudson was nine months old when we celebrated his first Christmas.  I honestly thought my […]

Dear Avery, I went on a school trip once to a planetarium.  I was about twelve years old at the time.  I remember lying on my back on a carpeted floor and staring up into a giant dome filled with tiny little dots.  The lights went out and one star at a time, the darkness […]