She’s six, and she’s awesome. I love having a six-year-old, even whilst I can’t believe she’s six.  Most moms I know want time to stop so that they might keep their babies little.  Most of the time, that sentiment resonates long and deep and true within me, too.  However, last year at her birthday, I remember hoping that she would pummel...

The Orcas Island rain perplexed me.  At home, if you walk in the rain, you get wet.  Seriously wet.  In seconds you are damp; one dash in the rain can leave you dripping and soggy and breathless.  Here, I walk in the rain, and I don’t get wet.  I look around; I see the rain dripping off the moss-covered roof and leaving ripples like stars in the sky throughout the...

I love spring.  I always have.  It’s a time of hope and promise and the green is evidence that life abounds.  I was going to post a picture, but then I started looking at pictures from Aprils of the past, and I decided to post a series of April pics.  (If you get my blogs via email, you may have to go to the site to see the pics–sorry!  I am still a...

I decided I wanted a new OB/GYN in this post-cancer period.  Since it is inadvisable for me to have more children (since my cancer was hormone positive), my new OB/GYN will only be my GYN. Upon hearing this news initially, Brad and I had the same reaction.  “It’s okay; we just want to raise the two beauties we already have.” Up until March 2012, I...

Today I wrote thank you notes for gifts given to me in March.  Yes, I’m still very behind.  Even while I’m not actively fighting cancer, I still need grace in areas like this because I just don’t have it all together.  But then, if I’ve learned anything in my adult life it’s this: no one has it all together. Phew; I can’t tell you...