Not What I Expected

Something fun that most expectant parents do is try to guess what their new baby will look like when he or she is born. Even if you decided to find out whether you are having a boy or a girl, you might wonder if the baby will have your husband’s dark hair, or your blue eyes.  A recent conversation with a friend brought back memories of my own pregnancies and my own Great Expectations.   With my first pregnancy,...

Tangled in Love

With all my little darlings off at school, and my work piled before me at my computer, it is sometimes easy for me to forget what my life was like just a few short years ago. In the throws of young motherhood, I would sometimes find time to jot down a few notes about my life—the good and the bad. I found this entry on my computer journal from January 2005, entitled “Tangled in Love”. At the time I was newly...