Love Songs

October 30, 2009

Mike started writing songs about Madeline the day she was born. Silly songs, ballads, chants, anthems, and lullabies. There are many melodies about Maddie. As Maddie grew older, she loved it when her daddy would play his songs for her. And she often wanted to help him along. One day I asked Mike to play [...]

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Progress

October 29, 2009

13 weeks 1 day 17 weeks 2 days 24 weeks 3 days Binky is moving along well, and it is such a comfort and relief. Things have been a little bit rougher for me but nothing awful. My sudden crazy upper back and neck pain has been super annoying but it all checks out OK [...]

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Looking For Meanings

October 28, 2009

My mom and I were lucky enough to attend the Women’s Conference yesterday thanks to my wonderful friend, Emmie. The mission of The Women’s Conference is to inspire, empower and educate women to be Architects of Change in their own lives and in the lives of others. The whole conference sounded amazing but what I [...]

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Cold Marble

October 27, 2009

I don’t remember much about that day, but I do remember walking into the room and seeing the right one for you. We knew we wanted something pretty, but we didn’t know what until we saw the many shades of purple. We never thought it would be something we’d have to pick out for you [...]

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Moments And Miles

October 26, 2009

I get through my days by working toward little moments and events. Sometimes it’s as simple as, “just a few more hours until that TV show starts,” or “tomorrow I have an ultrasound.” Other times it’s a bigger event, like someone coming to visit or maybe a ticket to a baseball game or lunch with [...]

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Influences

October 23, 2009

When I was pregnant with Madeline, I spent a lot of time looking through old photos of Mike and me. I’d take the images of our little faces and try to imagine what the little baby inside of me would look like. The 50% Portuguese, 25% Irish, & 25% German Mike plus the (not sure [...]

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