Current Condition

"I dreamed I kissed your feet
Between the cigarette butts
On the side of fourteenth street
I got down on my hands and my knees
With an alabaster jar

And I'm crawling on the floor
Just to find you now
To tell you how I feel I'm falling all over myself

And all my afflictions
They're only light ones anyway now "

~ John Mark McMillan

One Whole Year

My baby girl turns "1" today. I cannot believe it's been an entire year........


Now she can walk, talk, feed herself, cuddle and stroll her baby doll, blow kisses........wow. It's amazing, too, how much I have been changed by her presence in the last year. She's made me a better person; closer to the person I want to be. Not to sap it up too much or anything.

Happy First Birthday, my big girl.

Date at Home

Afternoon Hot Cocoa

It's finally snowing! After weeks of being teased with chilly-turned-warm-turned-chilly-again weather, we have some definite accumulation here. Ava keeps smashing her face onto the glass sidelights by our front door, thinking that - if she just presses hard enough - she'll be able to feel it.

It's so cozy, too, making an unexpected cup of hot cocoa in the middle of the afternoon.

"Gonna Make a Pie"

I was home alone last night (well, almost alone. Ava was in her bed). I decided to make some tea, have a cookie and rent a movie. I stumbled upon "Waitress", a story about a young woman in an unhappy marriage who is not excited to find out she's pregnant. I really loved it. She works in a diner making exquisite pies and uses different fillings to express where she's at emotionally. I found it really sweet (no pun intended). I can't officially endorse this movie; I've gotten into trouble that way in the past and don't need anyone "questioning my salvation". But, if you're looking for a funny movie that makes your mouth water, check it out.


Baby don't you cry
Gonna make a pie
Gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle
Baby don't be blue
Gonna make for you
Gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle
Gonna make a pie from heaven above
Gonna be filled with strawberry love
Baby don't you cry
Gonna make a pie
And hold you forever in the middle of my heart

Busy Morning Breakfast

I desperately need to stock up on some quick, healthy, good-tasting breakfast foods. I have a very busy morning but it doesn't excuse calling lukewarm coffee and an Oatmeal Cream Pie "breakfast". It's just wrong.

So long, '07

Another Christmas is over. The tree has been taken down, the gifts have all found proper homes and most of the leftover treats have been eaten or turned into something freezeable. Christmas 2007....is it too early to reminisce?

......about Ava's first look at the tree

.........the warm celebration with family and friends.........and matching dresses

.......the scrumptious left-over meal creations (courtesy of a new cookbook as a gift)

I hate to see it end. But, would it be as special if it happened more than once a year?


Until then, Christmas.