I've had this post stewing in my head for sometime now and I finally got a chance to really sit down and get my thoughts together. It was after I read, Don't Carpe Diem that I knew I had to write this. But understand that this is not a rebuttal or dispute of that article, just my view of those two little words, Carpe Diem. I'm sure you've heard the phrase once or twice. I heard it plenty of times growing up and I probably even put it on my AIM profile under Favorite Quotes when I was 15. And if you asked that 15 year-old me what the phrase means I would have confidently told you, seize the day, make every moment count. But it was a history professor mid-way through … [Read more...]
moments that define
There are moments I've always known would define me, from as far back as I can remember, even before I knew what the phrase "defining moments" truly meant. You know, most girls have dreams of becoming a wife and a mommy and we toy with those fantasies even in our dress-up days. We play house and we rock our baby dolls, as we grow older we name our children, and when we're in high school we scribble our names on notebooks with the last name of the current flavor of the month. We are smitten with the idea of walking down the aisle in a white dress long before the day ever comes and we watch in amazement as other brides walk down the aisle with perfect, princess-like grace.Of course, there are … [Read more...]
and I don’t even need a picture to prove it
On Sunday when I came home my sweet girl was loving on me. I asked her if she missed me and for the rest of the day we had this conversation over and over and over again. Braylen: Mommy? Me: What?Braylen: I miss you, Mommy, I miss you!! Me: I missed you tooBraylen "Uh-huh, I miss you too" And then, if that wasn't the cutest thing ever. She would look up at me and smile. You know, the one where she smiles so big that her eyes squeeze shut and her little nose scrunches up? Yeah, that one. I instictively reached for my iPhone because I knew I just had to have a video of the absolute preciousness (that's probably only a real word in the South) that was oozing out of my toddler. And then in the … [Read more...]