Look at this beautiful rose my Sweetie thought to bring in the house to me today. He’s always thoughtful like this. When we lived in our Grinnell house, he came inside every day from work in the Spring and Summer with a flower from the yard. I’m spoiled rotten.
2 April 2012
Our Seventh Anniversary
April 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Today is our seventh wedding anniversary. From sickness to getaways, from hardships to fantastic family nights, I would do it all again in a heartbeat as long as I had my Jared beside me. He is my rock, my soulmate, my partner and my best friend. A special angel in Heaven must have been looking [...]
20 March 2012
Please Pray for My Rock, My Dreamer
March 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
My Jared is an amazing man. When we met, we discovered we had many shared interests, particularly in the study of ecumenical religion. Those interests are, of course, what drew us together since we lived across the country from one another when we met. We contemplated and discussed doing many things once we got married: [...]
Crossing the Line
March 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I’m going into new territory today, territory that some say is crossing the line. I am going to start referring to my children by their real names on this blog. Their entire lives, whenever I have written online about my children some place besides the social media outlets where I’m “friends” with people I generally [...]
5 March 2012
Dead Girlfriend Fights
March 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Three things first: J and I have worked through an awful lot in our month-shy of 7 years of marriage and I’m choosing to write about perhaps the most sensitive issue of all of them today. The title of this post is cold-hearted. I know it is and I mean no disrespect to anyone involved. [...]
