As some of you may know, we are staying in the apartment where our organization has it’s offices in The Hague. We really like The Hague for several reasons. We have done training here before and had a blast in the city with some of our good friends. It is also a really relaxed and clean city. At least compared to Amsterdam! I am especially enjoying our time here as we have our own little apartment that we are staying in! It is the best living conditions we have lived in since leaving Paris! Lots of big bright windows, privacy, a balcony (!!!), and it is in Europe! You can’t beat that! 🙂 So anyways, the other day Justin, Maisie, and I went out to a fun little coffee shop called Bagels and Beans because they have wireless internet. It is on the middle floor of a huge bookstore. They…

I’m not sure my title even makes sense.  But I needed to communicate just how much I freakin’ love technology!  SO MUCH!  Here is a video of Maisie and her cousins singing and playing together over the good old video cam!

We just celebrated seven years of marriage on the tenth!  Seven wonderful, hellish, glorious, miserable, amazing, beautiful years of marriage!   I think it is a bit ridiculous to say that all seven years for every second of our marriage have been good, so I won’t say it.  But I don’t regret one second of our marriage.  Sure, I wish we would have done things differently at times.  But honestly, it was all part of the process of growing and getting to know one another better.  I definitely like who I am as a wife better today than in our first year of marriage! Oh man.  The drama I put my poor herd bird through!  I hurt his self esteem in ways I won’t explain on my blog.  I didn’t trust him. I thought that I had men issues with everyone except my husband, but I was naïve to think that…

I am out of control. I just looked up “chicken” on wikipedia. And before that I typed in “life of a chicken” in google and researched that for about twenty minutes. Twenty minutes I can never get back.  I am both embarrassed and disturbed with my new obsession. Something has got to change. I am feeling like I may be going crazy. I knew something was wrong when I showed Justin the blown up picture of a one day old chick on my computer and he looked at me with a disturbed look on his face. And just now as I was writing this post, Justin asked me (in all seriousness) if I was writing a post about him as it is our seven year anniversary today.  Nope.  I’m writing about chickens.   Yeah, things need to change and they need to change fast.   

So we all know that Maisie looks EXACTLY like her daddy.  Yeah, yeah, I hear it ALL the time.  No, I am not sick of it.  However, my mom just sent me some pics from when I was around Maisie’s age.  What do you think?  Any resemblance?  Yeah, I am desperate to hear (or read) the words that there is some sort of Maisie in me, but hey, be honest! 🙂   So at least we have the frizzy hair in common if nothin’ else!  I love this last picture of me and my big sis (even though she has her eyes shut)!