My Sweet Rory, SEVEN. It happened in a blink. You ask me all the time to tell you about the night you were born and every time I tell it I get teary-eyed. If you have babies of your own you will know that there is nothing on earth more magical than having your first… Read More a letter to Rory on her 7th birthday.
It’s an unusually warm fall which, at times, I am tired of the heat but nights like tonight I’m thankful for it. We ate dinner outside Saturday on the back deck, still in our pajamas from the day of alternating between cleaning and laziness. Andy grilled fish and I made quinoa and corn and black… Read More Rory’s heart.
It was 5 years ago when we were learning the significance of Ryder’s heart problems and that surgery would be the only solution. It seems like yesterday and a lifetime ago all at once. I thought getting through that would be the hardest thing I’ve ever done, but turns out, parenting is full of “hardest… Read More fearfully and wonderfully made
I am pretty sure it was five minutes ago when I was writing a letter to Rory on her first day of Kindergarten…. and here we are going into 1st grade. I thought I would just post a few pictures of her Kindergarten graduation. The end of the school year was strange for a lot… Read More Goodbye, Kindergarten!
We might as well start out today with the biggest news in the Harris house this year- RORY LOST HER FIRST TOOTH! She’s had a wiggly tooth for over a month and this week she went to the dentist and they loosened it up even more. So today as I was doing Rory’s hair for… Read More the cringe.
As soon as the girls left for school this morning I started working on their new room to get it finished up today! It has been two and a half weeks since the shared room process started and I was more than ready to finally get it together! This is what it looked like when… Read More the new {shared} big girl room
Dear Rory, Just writing the introduction came with painful, but happy, prickling tears to my eyes. I cannot believe another year has gone by and that you are now 6. I don’t know why 6 seems so much bigger but it just does. You now have to use two hands to show your age instead… Read More a letter to Rory on her 6th birthday.
Rory and I brainstormed what kind of party she wanted to have for a few weeks and we finally decided that a Fashion Show Party would be the best party EVER for her. She told me it was the best and I certainly hope it was and that she and her friends had a fantastic… Read More Rory’s Fashion Show Birthday Party
Do you ever wonder how we became so cookie cutter? Lately in my struggle to fight for Rory, I have found myself desperately wanting to put her in a box of “this is how it is going to go”. Me, the person who prays so hard to never have her put into a box…. I’m… Read More the fight just isn’t cookie cutter
So yesterday I got Ryder from school and she tells me this elaborate story about how a squirrel jumped on her back. Considering the fact that the day before she told me that Miss Janice wasn’t there at school and they just did school alone and Ryder taught the class all day, I felt this… Read More the squirrel went to church….