In the great wait/anticipation of my 3rd (and yes, likely my last baby) I wonder whether or not baby girl 3 will be bald or have hair. Of all the things to speculate about, this probably seems really, really, really silly. Right now, speculation regarding the trivial is likely my way of diverting my mind…
Recently, I have been VERY melancholy about Sarah’s babyhood/childhood. It seems like just yesterday that we were welcoming Sarah Amelia into the world! It seems almost impossible that Sarah is 2! Maybe it’s because I am pregnant again? It’s hard to say. I wish that a sage person had warned me about how much faster…
“Ruth, you haven’t even told your parents?!?!”, asked my doctor. “Ugh, I was waiting to gather as much information as possible….”, I replied. “OH – MY – GOD!”, said everyone. “Well, yes, we are very thankful to God!”, I replied to everyone. “SERIOUSLY?”, said almost everyone. “Yes.” “YOU’RE JOKING?” said about 50% of everyone. “No – For – Real.” …
During my lunch break I usually check-out the latest on Facebook and Yahoo news. A few days before Easter I came across a Facebook post from one of my college buddies. His post mentioned a blog from a Christian website (http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/parenting-means-wrestling-demons). Parenting articles always draw my attention, so I followed the link. This article spoke to…
Well, 2014 is gone forever – done. It wasn’t a bad year. I would sound ungrateful if I started whining about petty things. For starters, not getting the “express-pass” for the car-pool line was a real buzz-kill, but mine and Bryan’s steely determination to get our little Nadia to gymnastics practice pulled us through.…
Bryan and I survived the “regular” compulsory gymnastics season! Oh yes, Rachel did too 🙂 We were really proud of her. Despite not optimistic predictions, we think that she did well. Now I am no coach, I am just the mom, and I have decided that the big picture is the important gage for success.…
The Halloween season is always lots of fun and central to that fun is candy! This year, it seems like our candy jar was full from October 1 – November 1. Yes, we have a candy jar courtesy of Bryan, and I think it’s his way of slowly torturing me. Anyway, at the beginning of…
“Oh Lord, it’s hard to be humble, when you’re perfect in every way” is the line from an old country music song, and it kind of sums up how I view Sarah Amelia. I know this may seem snobby and incredibly unfair to Rachel, but my youngest is just perfect. In Sarah Amelia’s case, being…
Rachel’s first USAG competition in over 18 months was this past weekend. You may be asking yourself, “how does Ruth know how many months that it has been since Rachel’s last competition?”. It’s easy. Rachel’s last competition was on Feb 22, 2013, which also happens to be Sarah Amelia’s birthday! Yep – I didn’t even…
It’s a little funny how Bryan and I met. He was a second year medical student at UofL (yes, University of Louisville), and I was a Master’s degree student in the biochemistry department. I like to think of that time as round 1 of graduate school and some of the best science training that I…