To go along with our comfort food and Christmas movies Tiktok, here's a great start for Christmas movies... … [Read more...]
my dads eulogy
It was truly an honor to speak at my dads funeral, as strange as that sounds. At my grandfathers funeral, he had asked me to write something and speak at his. I looked at him like he was crazy, I said "you aren't going anywhere, what about this, I'll speak at yours, if you'll speak at mine" and he said "you know one of us gets the short end of this deal" This would be about a month before his official diagnosis, and I still thought it was the craziest thing, he's 51 at the time and invincible, right? Because it was so crowded, I've had a few people who had to stand in the lobby ask if I had a copy of what was said about him. Sorry it took me so long, but Allen had to figure out how to get … [Read more...]
Welcome to the world, Saylor Jane
It's been one whole month (I wrote the majority of this back in October, it's officially been two months now) since we welcomed our sweet Saylor Jane to the world and I wanted to take a minute to record that special day before too many details escape me. I have so much to say about our girl, our fun surprise, the easiest pregnancy of the three, and the most perfect little one to round out our family. Let's just get right into it, shall we? We knew this would be a repeat c-section and we found ourselves in the same situation at nearly 39 weeks, no progress at all. Funny enough, I thought since this was number three, we'd have some excitement, like randomly going into labor or having my … [Read more...]