Picture

There is something very endearing about a picture of  a new baby sitting on your mantle. It makes you sigh and take a moment to soak in all that innocence and the promise of a new life. If you have older kids of your own, it will take you back to when they were tiny and fit into your arm, and if you plan to have more kids, it just makes it seem like a good idea. So thank you Mona for sending over Mira's picture and adding some brightness to my very cold January evening!

Words

Often words are so easy to come by when there is a crisis in someone elses' life but when it is our lives, or those of the people close to us,  expressing our feelings can be the hardest thing to do. My dad, Papa, pappy or pospsticles as we call him was given a diagnosis of brain tumor today. And I do not know what to say to him or to my mother. Not knowing how I feel about it is a huge part of that. Am I sad, afraid, just plain shocked- I am still processing it all. Hopefully time will clear things up and find me one thread of thought that will give me a road into speaking with them about it. But for now- I am dealing with it in silence.