There is a Lighthouse...
This song has been playing my head allll week. And I learned to play it on piano. Sort of. So, it rings more with me. That's how it always is. I always feel "closer" to a song when I learn to play it....
View Article"When you fell, you fell towards me. When you crashed in the clouds, you...
My Love and Dearest Husband, I am fully aware that this is a public site and that everyone we know will be reading this, but I think I want everyone to read it. For two reasons. One, I am so very proud...
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So, here I stand at the precipise before me. My stomach is tight andthe nausea of knowing I still have a long way to go has started to set in. There is a young boy sitting with his dad talking about a...
View Article"Oh empty my heart, I've got to make room for this feeling so much bigger...
It's still kind of surreal waking up here. It's definitely surreal to not be able to read signs, speak the language, and drive on the right side of the road. My brain just has a hard time wrapping...
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Oh my... ...I've neglected Pleo for some time now, eh? -dusts off- Things haven't been too busy, but it's been busy enough. I'm starting my nanny job on Monday. It'll be about 30 hours a week, give or...
View ArticleGrowing up is hard to do.
It has become apparent to me in the last...oh...year or so that I'm not as grown up as I thought I was. I mean, just because one is thrown (more like puts herself) into grown up situations, doesn't...
View ArticleI need information
I thought I had everyone's addresses from the wedding on my computer, but it appears that I am just silly and do not. I'm wanting to send out Christmas cards to everyone, so if people could possibly...
View Article"My world is changing. I'm rearranging. Does that mean Christmas changes too?"
To this date (well, except for this year) I have never missed a Christmas with my family. Even last year with us living in Virginia, I came home a week before Christmas to help with the wedding. I have...
View Article"Hay un amigo en mi..."
(In case you aren't sure what the title says, it's "You've got a friend in me." It's the Gypsy Kings version that plays at the end of Toy Story 3. It's been stuck in my head for days, but it's really...
View ArticleSurprise!
So, in case I didn't get to tell all of you over the phone, I'm telling you now! We are indeed, pregnant! We're super excited and I definitely appreciate all the prayers and thoughts that have been...
View ArticleAunt Chuck inspired me to start my blog up again.
Some would call it stealing, but I call it inspiring. I started my Wordpress blog when I first got to Okinawa, but I was lame and didn't update it. Now that I have things to update with (not that I...
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I'll put them here too.
Ultrasound pictures! YAY! Every time I look at them, I blubber like a baby. I also updated my blog if you wanted to check that out too. :D
View ArticleI realize I've been lame...
...and haven't updated in awhile. I blame myself mostly, but I also blame the ever-present excuse, "I've been suuuper busy!" Anyway, so, I'm in the home stretch of visiting my parents in Texas. It's...
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Here are the pictures I promised.
These are some of the pictures from the ultrasound, in case you didn't see them on Facebook. And here they are even if you did. :D
View Article“Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep...
I really need prayers for patience right now. Everything is going by so fast, but at the same time, I feel like it's going so incredibly slow at the same time. -I'm ready for Soren to be here (I say...
View Article8 More Weeks!
It's really, really strange to be at this point already. I swear I was looking at the positive pregnancy tests just yesterday. Now I'm practicing relaxation techniques and getting the last few things I...
View ArticleMaternity Shoot!
This past weekend we had a maternity shoot done with a very kind and very patient (there were weather issues and asking a pregnant woman to pose is an event in itself) woman here in Okinawa. She sent...
View ArticlePrayers, prayers, and more prayers.
First, we'll start with the known. I'm starting to get really nervous about Soren making his appearance. Everything is so unknown and up in the air, which makes me feel soooooo unraveled. Everyone...
View ArticleSoren Abdiel Chetelat - October 26th, 2011
It's all still kind of surreal. I mean, it was about this time last week that I was being admitted into the hospital at 7cm, exhausted, in pain and ready to have my child that I had been waiting so...
View ArticleI'm so terrible at these.
Blerg. My ability to update pleonast is something to be desired, but I realize that I'm a failure, so that's a start right? It's been 5 months since my last post, which was about Søren's birth, which...
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