Well, it's game day for the Tigers ... We didn't make the trip to Florida, but we still had to wear team colors ...
Thought I'd share.
Go Tigers!
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Out with the old ...
Some favorite moments from 2008. There are so many to choose from ...Ella J joined our family in January 2008, so she's just one week shy of her first birthday. This photo of her sleeping is from when she was only weeks old.
Dylan is half-way through is first year of real, stay-all-day school. This picture of him sitting on a fence is from our annual camping trip with friends from church. We took a short hike - the first time he's had to do all the walking and none of the riding. Ella J got to ride in the backpack this year!
Our Christmas visit with the Barnet kids. I was their nanny/chauffer/grocery-getter/etc. from 2001 until April of 2008, so it mostly feels like they're family, too. Becca is almost 22, a senior at the Rhode Island School of Art & Design (RISD), Will is 19 and a freshman at Brown, and John is almost 17 and a junior in high school. With them are Ella J & Dylan.
Mike with his Clemson flag at Lake Tahoe this summer. He was so lucky to be able to do some traveling & sight-seeing while he was participating in the Maynard Institute's Journalism Fellowship in Reno, NV over the summer. I love that he had to pick and choose what to pack and the Clemson flag was never once in danger of being removed from the list of "must-haves"!
It's been a great year for our family - not without it's struggles or moments we wish we could take back - but mostly a good year. We'll kick-off 2009 with Ella J's 1st birthday ... and see what's in store for the rest of the year!
Happy New Year!
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Halloween, a new President-Elect, and Pony Rides
This life of mine is going at twice the speed of light. Is that even possible? I stink at physics (and all other sciences, truth be told). Be it possible or not, it's true.
Two months ago, I was a high school student. I was carrying a pillow to first block to sleep through Chemistry (a hint at why I stink at sciences?) and only concerned with Volleyball or the next trip I'd take with my youth group.
A month ago I was a college student, standing outside my Senior Seminar English, watching planes crash in to the World Trade Center buildings and then the Pentagon. I was terrified that this could happen in my country (but never stopped to think of the countries where suicide bombs are the everyday-norm). And then I was awed as the people of our country wrapped themselves not in fear, but in Truth.
Three weeks ago I was expecting my first child. Terrified that I would break him, or hurt him in some fundamental way.
A week ago I was expecting my second child. Terrified that I would break her, or hurt her in some fundamental way.
My life continues to change, to go so fast that most of the time I feel like I'm on the merry-go-round, being turned faster and faster and faster until I can't hold on any longer. I know that I'm going to be thrown off and have no say in where I land or how hard.
But today. Today I am almost 30. Today I am the wife of my best friend. Today I am the mother of two of God's greatest works of art, and still terrified that I will hurt them in some fundamental way. Today I will go to sleep with a full tummy, in a warm bed. Today I will rest easy, not because of who our country has elected to lead us for the next four years, but because no matter where I go, what I do, how fast the merry-go-round is spinning, "The LORD my God will be with me wherever I go ..." (Joshua 1:9).
I blinked and Halloween was here and gone, election day was over (DJ voted for the "first time" at school!), as El went on her first pony ride ... oh, it goes so fast ... but it's so much more than o.k., no matter how fast it goes.
Two months ago, I was a high school student. I was carrying a pillow to first block to sleep through Chemistry (a hint at why I stink at sciences?) and only concerned with Volleyball or the next trip I'd take with my youth group.
A month ago I was a college student, standing outside my Senior Seminar English, watching planes crash in to the World Trade Center buildings and then the Pentagon. I was terrified that this could happen in my country (but never stopped to think of the countries where suicide bombs are the everyday-norm). And then I was awed as the people of our country wrapped themselves not in fear, but in Truth.
Three weeks ago I was expecting my first child. Terrified that I would break him, or hurt him in some fundamental way.
A week ago I was expecting my second child. Terrified that I would break her, or hurt her in some fundamental way.
My life continues to change, to go so fast that most of the time I feel like I'm on the merry-go-round, being turned faster and faster and faster until I can't hold on any longer. I know that I'm going to be thrown off and have no say in where I land or how hard.
But today. Today I am almost 30. Today I am the wife of my best friend. Today I am the mother of two of God's greatest works of art, and still terrified that I will hurt them in some fundamental way. Today I will go to sleep with a full tummy, in a warm bed. Today I will rest easy, not because of who our country has elected to lead us for the next four years, but because no matter where I go, what I do, how fast the merry-go-round is spinning, "The LORD my God will be with me wherever I go ..." (Joshua 1:9).
I blinked and Halloween was here and gone, election day was over (DJ voted for the "first time" at school!), as El went on her first pony ride ... oh, it goes so fast ... but it's so much more than o.k., no matter how fast it goes.
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