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Funny how a song can stop you in your tracks, hitch your breath in, break your heart and warm your soul. Some songs just bring you back to moments. Bring you back to people and times long gone. One moment you’re here, suddenly it’s 20-30 years ago… the sounds of love and loneliness rolling over your skin, tingling like feathers ( Read more... )

I feel like I got older somehow but not in the same way that other people around me have. I can't put my finger on it. It's not really something marked by the additional grey hairs that I [sometimes] hide or the few unaccounted for pounds that grace my hips. Is that sad? I don't really think so. But I have amazingly strong arms, momma arms, for I ( Read more... )

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My stomach hurts watching the aftermath of Yolanda. Puffy, sea swollen arms and legs peek out from wraps of tarps and banners; they litter the streets of Samar as others walk past searching for water and food. Images of people weeping, covered in blood, stretching their arms out to the camera men, occasionally there are a few small smiles but ( Read more... )

It's true. My littlest is all to soon stretching out into her new child-monster state where she feeds like none other and makes startlingly loud grunting and cooing noises. And my oldest, she is well into her death defying, anti gravity stage where everything is her own personal jungle gym to climb up on, scoot under, and raise up over her head ( Read more... )

I had a long day today spent driving out in the sun house hunting across the county all the while nursing two babies and chasing one through yards ( Read more... )

I had a nap....and now I'm all screwed up again. But I needed it (GOD DID I NEED IT!) and now I'm awake and flustered by deep seated thoughts that I should sleep, I need to sleep, I simply must sleep and yet I can'tBaby woke up at 3am yesterday and didn't fall back asleep until 8:30am, well after big sis woke up and was demanding breakfast and long ( Read more... )