It’s Friday afternoon, and I’ve spent most of the past forty-eight hours in the horizontal position.  I try to leverage the forced quietude for all that it can be, but it looks an awful lot like being lazy.  (And I’m not saying that that is a bad thing–I need to be lazy.)  There is such a thing as good laziness, right?  I have contentment...

Oh, Greta.  She has always been stylish.  She has been systematically un-pairing outfits that I’ve lined up in her closet and mish-mashing them together to make new Greta-styled combinations for years.  Most of the time, she looks pretty great; I actually think she has a knack for pairing prints together.  I would never intuitively make the pairings that she...

Honestly?  It has been bit rough on the Jen-front lately.  This chemo (which I am still grateful for and happy to be on) is kicking my butt in terms of energy and feeling well.  I have next-to-nothing left after parenting, and it hasn’t felt like I’m doing that particularly well.  My best cancer friend died last week (which makes everything else pale in...

For months, months, I have been ranting about my lack of understanding about technology.  In 2008, I lost my hard-drive on my computer in a insta-crash.  With it, I lost most of my videos of baby Maren.  Since then I’ve been fierce about backing up my computer, and rooted in the truth that I need to be on top of this stuff. I wave my hand above the head about...

I’m back in the chemo chair today, and praying over the treatment, my loved ones, and plans for the future.  I am neutropenic, which means that I am immuno-compromised and susceptible to illness.  Nonetheless, life goes on.  In forty-eight hours last week I went to the pediatric office twice: once for each kid.  Greta came home sick from school on Tuesday with...