the third time around is a charm

Parenting amuses me. Especially the difference between being a mom the first time vs the second time around. The first time around I would sit by my sleeping sick kiddo wishing they were awake & laughing, but would never do anything: read, text, breath… anything! I would just stay frozen in fear hoping for better […]

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-me

It’s amazing how in the same moment, life can stand still & never stop at the same time….

Some people get simpler as time goes by. Some people get more complex. I’m not sure I know which is harder…

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Be stuck with yourself, if even just sometimes…

This morning I had coffee with the ocean. Mornings are something I never get used to & yet when I’m at the beach I can’t remember why I’m not here more often. Being alone used to scare me more than anything I could ever imagine, than I married the Navy & being alone would be […]

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I couldn’t be ‘me’, without you.

One time I gushed all over Leela’s swim coach, explaining that her miraculous mermaid skills changed my life forever because she had taken Leela from not putting her head under water to swimming across the pool by herself in one month! I don’t think she really understood that I’d been holding my breath poolside for […]

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Quotes from the most amazing lil humans I’ve ever met, my kiddos….

‘Today I saw the grass dance mom…the wind makes it do that’.- Zea

“Bad habits are easy to make, but hard to break; but good habits are hard to make, but easy to break.” — Zea

” Dear Jesus, thank you for brother, mommy, daddy, towmater, lighting mcqueen, big blankets, cows, baby cows, elmo, pancakes, toys, other cars, 4,5,8,9,10, cups, mickey mouse, dogs, friends, the moon, & brother, mommy & daddy” –Zea, if we could all learn to pray so raw-ely. 
 

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