Yes, it’s Marriage Month, but that doesn’t mean Mila Monday or TBotW are going anywhere. We’ll just have to work them into the theme somehow. Like by saying marriage is a garden: you have to water and weed and care for it, so it can grow and flourish. Or by saying marriages are like flowers, each unique and beautiful in… View Post
My grandparents are awesome. They’ve been married for 58 years (not quite the sixty I claimed on Tuesday…my bad) and are just as cute now as they were then. I mean really. This photo is just the best. It’s no surprise, given that he married the prettiest girl in town, that my cousins and I often received this dating advice… View Post
As I mentioned yesterday, I’ve solicited some help from a few dear friends and bloggers I admire. I sent them each the same questionnaire about marriage, because I wanted to show how different a strong marriage can look from couple to couple. I realized as the replies started coming in, though, that there are quite a few common threads that seem… View Post
In a couple weeks David and I will celebrate our seventh wedding anniversary. I’ve been thinking a lot about all that time we’ve spent together and what it has done for us as husband and wife. This past year has been an especially hard one, but we’re both still here. We’re still a team. And, quite frankly, our team is… View Post
Amelia: 170 weeks and Margot: 72 weeks (And David, who is somewhere upwards of sixteen hundred weeks.) It’s been lovely having Daddy home to play on a Monday. Three-day weekends are good like that. And their daddy is good like that, drawing rivers and boats and alligators on endless strips of butcher paper. I sure love watching the three of… View Post