divine intervention

one of my favorite novelists Elizabeth Gilbert shares her perspective on the creative process and reminds us of the wonderfully humbling and freeing practice of separating ourselves from both our successes and failures; encouraging us to put it all out there everyday in the way we know how and leaving the rest to divine intervention.

enjoy.

make it count

adam is such a great dad. while his work keeps him away from us more than we'd like (or he'd like, i'm sure) he really does make the time he is here, count. i'm sure if i worked as many hours as he does i'd be ready to flop on the couch, not to be disturbed. but he always has energy for them, no matter how tired i know he is. he's always coming up with new projects to do with them and new things to teach them. the other night i came downstairs to find him teaching sienna how to play checkers : ) come to find out, she's a natural...look at those kings! (or queens, as she likes to call them). and even though this hand print mold turned out to be worthless, the time he spent working on it with her was priceless. our girls have it good.

Our Big Girl

Olivia hasn't been feeling so hot the last few days, so yesterday we spent most of the day just taking it easy and enjoying the nice weather. Turns out a little rest and relaxation was just what she needed to finally take her first steps! They said at daycare last week that she took a couple steps there, but we had only seen her stand up, cruise along the furniture or down the hall holding the wall. But last night as we were just about to put the girls to bed, liv turned away from her little play table and took three adorable, wavering steps to me. We were all cheering and clapping, i'm sure we scared her to death! Adam and I looked at each other with this happy-sad smile. Our girl is growing up : )