Honey and I went to a holiday supper with great friends last week. I texted him early in the day and said “tonight is dress up”, clearly meaning for him to don some slacks and a pressed shirt. Yet, this is what I walked out the door with. The baby managed to squeeze in one… Read More
From sun up to sun down, we spent our day celebrating Whit in a dozen different ways! That he made it here in spite of an arduous and worrisome pregnancy is a true miracle, and ended up foreshadowing the persistent, self-sufficient and incredibly loving child that’s sweetly slumbering down the hall four years later. He’s… Read More
It sounds cliché, but it seems like yesterday that I was at Emory Hospital birthing eight pounds of joy two weeks before his scheduled arrival. I marvel each and every day at how on earth I could be so lucky as to call this child my own. It is such a tremendous gift to love… Read More
We’re wrapping up an exceptional Thanksgiving Eve around these parts. I didn’t lift a finger as far as food prep for tomorrow… or do anything else truly worthwhile as far as those sorts of things go. Instead, our little party of four spent the day jaunting around town on all sorts of fun outings. Here’s… Read More
Mother and Daddy-O just left after a marathon two week visit and we already miss them terribly. (It never does get easier to say farewell.) While they were here we made one of the stops on the Piedmont Pilgrimage, the 10th annual tour of Atlanta’s best model railroads. The working model railroad that we visited… Read More
I want to thank y’all for taking time this week to send so many kind, heartfelt and encouraging comments, emails and prayers to me, to sweet little Bird and to our family. The outpouring of support through Bird’s surgery, and as we wait on his test results, has been gracious and heartening. (I sure hope… Read More
My sweet nephew Jay, or Bird as the family calls him, is having another surgery this morning. He has had an unexplained swollen tonsil since last May that his pediatrician noticed at his 3 year check-up. Since they need to remove the one tonsil, they are going to go ahead and do a full tonsillectomy… Read More