Sometimes when I get overwhelmed with something I like to ignore it altogether.  A perfect example of this is my blog.  I have made empty promises in the past to try to post everyday, specifically a picture.  Well, I just can’t do it!  Sometimes I will just draw a blank and have nothing to say.  Then, as far as a picture goes, my batteries are dead on my camera.  Yeah, I should get new batteries, but I am lazy bones.  So lots of new things happening in our family!  At least lots of new things happening with Maisie!  Thanks to my mom, she is now using a fork and spoon!  I can’t even believe she can poke her little organic raviolis with her plastic fork.  It is really cute.  She also scoops up yogurt and other fruit puree type things.  It is precious, except for the fact that it gets…

Portland is cold and rainy and cold and rainy and cold and rainy.  It is a different kind of cold than California.  I think it is mostly different because first of all, it isn’t so wet.  Secondly, you know the cold won’t last long in California.  It is different than Paris because in Paris you just get super bundled up and deal.  Here, you get sort of bundled because you will be in your car with the heat blasting, but when you go outside you have to deal with the fact that you really aren’t dressed for the weather.  You would think that I would have this figured out since I lived here for 18 years of my life.  I don’t though.  I remember wearing scandalous tank tops to dance clubs in the middle of winter when I lived here ten years ago.  I have come a long way from…

Why do babies like to put underwear around their heads? Maisie stacked them all up around her neck the other day and crawled around as though she was the prettiest little princess there ever could be. When I told my friend Katie about it, she happily exclaimed that Julia had done the same thing earlier that day. I retold the story today to my friend Margie and she let me know that her girls did the same thing. I remember pictures of my niece, when she was about three years old, wearing my sister’s thongs. Interesting. I guess us women start at an early age with our love for pretty undies. Well, except for that Maisie decided to wear my big, cozy undies that I sometimes sleep in. Sorry, but the pretty ones are reserved for daytime use. Shouldn’t it be the other way around? TMI…I know….I know. Justin actually…

I just want to be settled somewhere. We have been “on the road” since the end of August. We have been living out of a suitcase for that long, over three and a half months. I feel very unsettled. We don’t know what our future looks like and it is a bit unnerving. All we know is that we will be in Portland for a year. After that? We have no clue. We are waiting to hear from God. Waiting for some BIG sign or answer. Waiting for peace. Waiting for unity. Waiting. Lots of waiting. Reminds me of when I was waiting for Maisie, but she took her sweet time. Two weeks late is REALLY late for a huge pregnant woman! I feel like things are taking their sweet time right now. Justin and I have different feelings about the future, but I have complete faith that we will…

Justin wrote the sweetest post about our first year with Maisie.  Read about it HERE!