

15 months and emerging from the fog
today was bina's 15 month pediatrician appointment (21 days late), complete with weighing, poking, prodding, three shots and a finger...


it is well with my soul
it's been a month now since my last post. the last almost three weeks now have been a battle for me. my goal with this blog is to be real...


grace is a curse word
i mean, not really. but sometimes i feel like it is. david and i were texting back and forth with some friends of ours about political...


a good season
so it's been three months since we moved to michigan. we're past the newborn period! now the fun begins. i'm anxious for fall to start so...


well that's just bad parenting
or is it? i feel like sometimes we want to explain away some tragic event simply because we don't want to believe it could happen to us,...


adventures with bina
and now we have a walker. which opens up a whole slew of new activities! first and foremost, she can transform into diaperzilla. which,...


13.5 months. but who's counting.
after bina's week of crappy sleep during fourth of july week, we had five straight nights of her sleeping through the night. which hasn't...


grace abounds
this past week we went up to petoskey to celebrate the fourth of july. petoskey is my favorite place. both my grandparents and my dad...


purpose in productivity
so because we were going non-stopped for so long preparing to move, and then moving, and then working on the house before our stuff...


the god of the mundane
a friend recently shared a quote with me that went something like: if god isn't lord of the mundane, then he isn't lord at all. this was...