Author: Gracie

My DITL is up now! It was fun to do, I think I’ll do it again sometime. Like you guys aren’t sick of seeing a bazillion pictures from me…

Anyway, I thought I would share something that happened the other morning. I was just doing my normal thing, juggling baby...

I’m fairly sure I’m feeling a new wave of hormones lately. Almost everything I see that is slightly beautiful or inspiring (and trust me, it’s everywhere…) gifts me with a little lump in the back of my throat, and I find myself blinking back awed tears at how much I love...

This week in food:
This week I’m trying to tie up loose ends in the garden. I’ll be making salsa verde, canning squash and soups and chicken stock, making a mock root cellar in our closet, drying out the last of my herb garden, and many other very fun...

Jeff and I have really been talking about things lately. We’ve talked about solid desires for the future, about what we need to do to get there, and about relaxing in the midst of it all to savor our life as it is. We realized that we really want...

I was so upset before. I don’t really know what it was. It was like I had to figure out how to do this all NOW and since it didn’t make sense now, then it won’t ever and I’m screwed and… that just isn’t helpful thinking. That being said, I...

I’m so frustrated. Jeff and I just crunched numbers and we basically can’t afford for me to go to school. He says we’ll work something out, but I’ve already postponed school twice so that we could save money, and it’s still just not delivering. We just can’t afford it. We’re...

…and here we go!

August 28th:
My birthday. I’m 24! The highest number, if you didn’t know. It was great. I felt really out of it this year, I kept forgetting that it was going to be my birthday until someone reminded me. It was weird, usually I get that twinge...

My baby. Slept through the night. She woke up once to nurse, and so I grabbed her close and I only realized it was morning because Jeff’s alarm started going off. That means it was 5:30-ish, but still. She slept from 10pm to 5:30. Yes! Then she went back...

I’ve started running again. It’s hard, but I get that old familiar feeling all through my body- it’s a rewarding ache that got me to love it before. My dad and I used to run together. He’d pull me out of my adolescent slump and get me moving. I...

“Do you want to come to dinner with me and some friends? I just thought it would be fun for you… you know, to get out!”

Nice. This is what my friend said to me when she invited me over earlier. I’m surely being oversensitive, but it made me...