promises and an update

there are three blog posts weighing heavily on my blogger conscience - 

the story of blythe and ollie, the tragedy of not having seen them for four years, 

and the glory of our recent reunion (and the pictures), 

a nine-days-in-new-hampshire photo dump from my fancy new camera, 

and the story of heather von st. james, a mom, like me, and yet a mom nothing like me.  

heather has asked me to write about her experience battling mesothelioma as a new mother.  

i hope to properly honor to her courage, strength, and spirit, when i do so.  

until then, here are these two turkeys.  will was recently given a big boy bed, and, so far, it's a disaster.  tomorrow daddy leaves for four days in utah, and our little disaster may turn into an outright calamity.  also, in will news, the boy is obsessed with target.  and i mean obsessed.  on several occasions he has raged for hours and hours, standing at the front door, begging us to take him there.  

i mean, i get it.  i like target too.  but still, little buddy, enough's enough.  

quinn, as you can see, has started eating rice cereal and oatmeal cereal.  

girlfriend seems very content with this development.  

the house continues to come together, 

and i am falling deeper in love with our home and children by the day.  

in the words of my wise friend, anne, this is it. 

this is it, this is it, this is it.