Author Archives: jenn

It’s Kid Quotes Friday!!!

Welcome to another exciting edition of Kid Quotes! I am adding a link up today. I am hoping at least one person joins it, and that maybe if you love the kid quotes – you’ll add your own or pass … Continue reading

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A Year

I remember turning 25.  I was sitting in the parking lot of a local pizza joint. My head in my hands. Crying.  The first birthday that I wouldn’t get to speak with my mother. The first birthday my Dad completely … Continue reading

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Tear by Tear

It’s hard to put yourself out there. To talk about the hard things. To acknowledge that you struggle.  But every time that I do, I am taken aback. By the support. The love. The virtual nods of sympathy and looks … Continue reading

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I Bear Witness (an exercise in personification)

It is almost like she is a little girl again, and I am her little brown bear that she takes everywhere. It is familiar – the way her chocolate brown curls are covering my body, as she squeezes me so … Continue reading

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Who Doesn’t Love A List?

Linked up with Northwest Mommy for Monday Listicles!! 10 Things I Want to Do Before I Die –Raise a child {children} –Travel cross country –Get my Ph.D (remember, call me Dr. Jenn!) –Get skin reduction surgery (one of the unmentioned … Continue reading

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Stream of Consciousness – My Brain in plain view

Do you remember those commercials? This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. And the egg frying in the pan? I did not understand these commercials as a kid, but I used to love saying that phrase at … Continue reading

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Loose Morals? (By Casey)

Welcome to another Saturday with the engineering geek!  I want to again draw your attention to/compliment my wife on the banner, which has been perfected over the week.  It took a lot of hard work with various photo-editing software and … Continue reading

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Kid Quote Friday!

Welcome to the Return of Kid Quote Friday! New! Improved! With a Button! Next week there will be a link up, so if you are reading this right now and want to link up next Friday with funny things your … Continue reading

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Share Your Memories

I have a confession. Even though I am working hard to take more pictures to remember these days and moments in time, I hardly ever DO anything with them. Unless you count uploading them to Facebook (which takes FOREVER). And, … Continue reading

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Sometimes: Pour Your Heart Out

Sometimes I wake up with it in my head. Sometimes I fall asleep thinking about it. Sometimes my stomach aches at the thought of it. Sometimes my heart soars with the hope that surrounds it. Sometimes tears form where there … Continue reading

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