My Dearest Lilla, I blinked and now you are one, toddling around my kitchen, pulling open all my cabinet draws and saying “big girl” words like “shi shi” and “mama” and “Ab” And just like that the first year of your life feel like it slipped through my fingers and now it is gone! In [...]
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To Lillian at a year – Happiest Birth Day
July 9, 2012My girls
June 25, 2012Every so often, I find myself burning the midnight oil looking over old photos of the girls. I love pouring over the photos and remembering Lillian’s first year! Here are a few of my favorites!
Where it all began…
June 7, 2012Far above Cayuga’s waters With its waves of blue Stands our noble alma mater Glorious to view Lift the chorus, speed it onwards Loud her praises tell Hail to thee our alma mater Hail all hail Cornell Thirteen years ago, at a Barenaked Ladies concert in the summer of 1999 I met John! [...]
The way we are
March 23, 2012Oh how I wish that more of my days look like the picture out of one of Norman Rockwell’s beautiful images, but more often than not the days ebb and flows of the day are filled with both the high and lows of riding on the motherhood roller coaster! I love thrill rides and [...]
Trusting our mothering intuition
January 18, 2012“One of the greatest gifts we can give our children is teaching them to listen to their intuition by learning to listen to our own” I really look forward to getting the mail each day during the winter months. It give me a reason to take the girls outside each day even if it is [...]
Beautiful moment
January 13, 2012Last night John had a work event that went late into the evening (he didn’t get home until 10pm). I was left to do bedtime alone, which usually isn’t a problem, but last night Lillian wasn’t feeling well because of a cold she is trying to fight. I did everything to try and schedule the [...]
Sisters
January 10, 2012A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost. ~Marion C. Garretty
A New Year
January 2, 2012Christmas is over, we have celebrated the new year and today I gathered the energy to take down the decorations and the tree. There is a certain sadness that hangs in the air like early morning fog across the cranberry bogs when I take down the decorations. I always feel a little depressed when the [...]
Just as we are
December 18, 2011The girls are asleep, I’m sitting in my flannel PJs under my warmest down comforter listening to Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker on the iPod, wishing I was dancing on stage with some of the world’s best ballerina. John is sitting next to me reading and I can’t help but feel the urge to blog! I rarely get [...]
Happy 5 months Lillian
November 27, 2011Dear Lillian, I can’t believe that you are five months already! As I did with your sister, I’m writing to celebrate each month of your first year. Oh how much you’ve grown and changed in the past month. First off, you are rolling now. You are a pro at rolling back to front and front [...]