I have spent much of my life in a battle with depression, not severe depression just enough for life to be hard at times for the lows to feel extra low and the highs to feel like flying , it made things that were small seem big and things big seem overbearing.  It was until… Continue reading I choose happy

I watched something yesterday that opened my eyes a little, well a lot actually , they were talking about the men who built the great Cathedrals, the builders are unknown, these Cathedrals took 100 years to build, they started something knowing they would never see it finished,  to build things their names would never be… Continue reading I see

We love to exhaustion , laugh in delirium with the kids and pass out by the light of the Christmas tree in a pile ..... this is my legacy

We've been enjoying the holiday season in a different way this year- we've focused on enjoying our friends and family and celebrating our Savior ! Living windows and Christmas parade are favorites! I think it's hard to explain the concept to a child of celebrating a whole month , but it's a beautiful concept of… Continue reading A new meaning

Some days I feel sorry for myself, I had one of those last night, tears, cried  because I cooked a dinner no one ate, that Porter has a knot on his head for like two weeks in a row from trying to do what the big kids do which includes not napping when he should,… Continue reading lucky to have you

there really is nothing more beautiful than sunshine and a little slab of concrete to play on

I would have never believed I could run a half marathon, I remember my first 5k, I thought I would collapse, Ashley pushed me to run to do it for myself, I ran the river, blisters forming not knowing what I was doing.  That was ten years ago.   I would have never even aspired to… Continue reading Leaves

That is how long we have been friends, the 3 of us, we started out as 21 year old girls who thought we knew it all but obviously knew nothing at all.  We have survived the messiest part of life together and yesterday as we sat looking at one another, and then in the mirror,… Continue reading 13 years

The thing about a superhero is they do things under the cover of a cape and mask, most of them have normal everyday lives on the other side of that mask.  That is what our family has, a superhero, and the work he does under the cover of night, no one will know, the hours… Continue reading Superman

Use your nice voice, exercise your manners, and respect the answer, I expect this of my 3 year olds, they can quote it to me but why do I find I have a hard time doing it at 33-I think that is how old I am, ugh I think I have been telling people I… Continue reading are you a robot