Look who’s 4! Happy Birthday Little Bird. You are my inspiration, my perspiration and–sometimes–my desperation. You put both the ‘pampers’ and the ‘pakhlava’ into my blog. You love kitties (especially ours), ‘Bunny,’ books, cowgirl boots, twirling, cupcakes and ice cream. You spend your days riding swings, climbing walls (including those you shouldn’t), watching movies, being […]
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Life is a lot like mountaineering
The Three Rules of Mountaineering It’s always further than it looks. It’s always taller than it looks. And it’s always harder than it looks. – Author Unknown Fifty years of life is like is a lot like mountaineering. There are the days when you feel like you are on top of the world, and others […]
Maggie, the cat, celebrates her 19th
There is no such thing as an ordinary cat. ~Collette Yes, this is a post about my cat. But hey, it’s her 19th birthday which, from what I’ve read, is the equivalent of 93 human years. Any living soul, man or beast, who can claim that much life on earth, deserves special recognition in my […]
Golden birthday
Guess who’s 3 on the 3rd? Happy Golden Birthday* Baby Bird! Three! Our girl is growing up. She’s not a Baby Bird anymore–she’s a ‘Little Bird.’ *A golden birthday year is the year when the celebrant turns the age of their birthday. Baby Bird is 3 on the 3d; I was 15 on the 15th. […]
Our family turns 2!
March 22, 2012 Gyumri, Armenia Snow and ice covered the ground and temperatures hovered near zero. We spent the morning trying to distract our minds from the wait, the wait to find out if the judge would grant us permission to adopt one tiny 11-month-old baby girl. Our driver took us to see Mother Armenia. […]
Look who’s two!
A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it. ~Jerry Seinfeld Happy Birthday Baby Bird! Want more to celebrate? Check out Delicious Baby Photo Friday.
Birth-day
My daughter was born in the foothills of Shirak, Armenia in the shadow of Mt. Aragats. The landscape is rugged, the winters long, brown hillsides fold into each other and barren beautiful vistas stretch as far as the eye can see. But come springtime—and May—the month she was born, miles upon miles of wildflower meadows […]
What are the odds?
Math has never been my forte. When I was in grade school, I was fair to middling at math. Unfortunately, in tenth grade I suffered through “SMSG geometry” and a teacher—amazingly enough, a woman—who did nothing to inspire or motivate me. So by the time I was a senior in high school, I was doubling […]
Big birthday breaths
“Come on now. I want to see five big birthday breaths,” our spin instructor tells us. “Like you’re blowing out candles.” I took as much air as I could into my lungs as he started to count. “One—two—if you don’t breath you won’t make it to the end of class.” Inhale. Exhale. I blew the […]
Pampers turns one!
Happy Birthday Pampers and Pakhlava! Today my blog turns one. It seems like just yesterday I was sitting in front of my computer screen, forefinger shaking as it hovered over the ‘publish’ button. I’d never written about something so personal in such a public venue. This was a big leap. I was full of nervous […]