Empty Inkwell

Alrighty, friends. I am off to Lost Canyon. I barely slept last night! Partly because I was so excited, and partly because pack­ing takes twice as long when you are pack­ing for a baby! This so back­wards… but seri­ously, I packed more for Cora than I did for myself… you just never know what may hap­pen and what you might need […]

Each year, as a part of my husband’s posi­tion as the assis­tant youth direc­tor for our church, he takes a group of high school kids to a Young Life sum­mer camp… as if he needed it to be in the job descrip­tion. Hon­estly, it’s a blast. Both the youth direc­tor and Matt (and me too!) were Young Life leaders […]

I took Cora to the library yes­ter­day. I know what you’re think­ing… here we go… another post about a “Cora first”. And technically—yes—it was Cora’s first trip to a library, so obvi­ously I took a zil­lion pic­tures as you’ll see below (what’s new?). But if I’m being hon­est… this post is more about me and my crazy book […]

About a month ago, Cora offi­cially entered the fight-sleep-‘til-you-crash stage. If she could talk, I’m sure I’d be hear­ing, “but I’m not tired, mommy” on a daily basis—multiple times per day, if we’re count­ing. I can remem­ber say­ing those words so often as a lit­tle girl… why is it that kids fight bed­time so hard? If they could […]

Though I rarely have time to do it, I love scrap­book­ing! After a long, long scrap­book­ing draught, my friend, Ali­son, invited me to a crop night that she fre­quently attends. We went last Fri­day night and had a blast! The crop night was held in the garage of a Cre­ative Mem­o­ries con­sul­tant that Ali­son knows. I’m sure when I said garage, you pictured […]

Today was an amaz­ing day! After church, Matt, Cora and I met up with my brother, Jonathan, and his fam­ily, and brother, Jamin, and his girl­friend. We ate lunch at Pan­era Bread (so yummy!) and then wan­dered into a toy store that was just across the walk­way from the restau­rant… Geppetto’s. Geppetto’s is a small toy store, but is […]

Rem­i­nisc­ing about school sup­plies and ele­men­tary school yes­ter­day got me think­ing about school in gen­eral, which of course led to my col­lege years. I have to admit: I really miss col­lege. By now, some of you are prob­a­bly begin­ning to notice I’m not your aver­age twenty-something year-old, and are think­ing: ok… she likes crummy weather, the smell […]

I was at Tar­get today. While wan­der­ing the aisles I passed by their annual dis­play of fall school sup­plies. If you’ve ever been in a tar­get between the months of July and Sep­tem­ber, I’m sure you’ve seen it—pretty hard to miss—an entire sec­tion of the store is cleared out in order to stock bins full of glue […]

Noth­ing beats excel­lent cus­tomer ser­vice… really. It’s so refresh­ing to feel under­stood, val­ued, appre­ci­ated, and well… served. There was a let­ter from our insur­ance car­rier in the mail today. I think most would agree: deal­ing with insur­ance is usu­ally less than pleasant—nobody really wants to pay any­body and it can some­times be like pulling teeth to make […]

I woke up this morn­ing to a hazy light peek­ing through the blinds in my bed­room win­dow; the gray­ish light made me think it was much ear­lier than it really was (thank you Cora for let­ting me sleep ‘til 8:30). I picked Cora up and made my way to the liv­ing room. I looked out the slid­ing glass […]