Finding Light in Darkness


Sacrifice. Pain. Suffering. All parts of the human condition. We are meant to feel discomfort. Kyle is about 2-3 weeks out since being in the hospital on and off eight days for two back to back bowel obstructions that were able to resolve (both) without a surgery that would certainly cause more damage to him…

Picture Day


Today was a decent enough day. The above picture is my favorite photo taken today by my mother of my husband, Kyle and I. I had my mom be our free photographer so we could get anniversary photos together right before Kyle and I’s first wedding anniversary, which is October 11th (today is October 6th…

Nose to the grindstone.


I had a decent enough… considering the circumstances.. time with my mom on our Thursday trip to Oregon. It gave us a chance to talk about a lot of things and I got to comfort her in her anxiousness regarding her brother and his health status. She had asked me to go back down with…