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my children have some very special friends. i posted about that here a while back.  koruna has drake. marvel has louie. with time each special friend has become more tattered, more lumpy, more loved. And they have each duplicated themselves. we of course have backup drakes and backup louies.  we’re no fools.  but at someContinue Reading

botrflis fli noth botrflis love flawrs tha dot hav a nest thae fli to th flawrs amidst the dozens of little papers in koruna’s cubbie at school, we found this one.  it’s runa’s poem sweetly written by one of her friends.  koruna’s last week of school is upon us.  she’s almost 4 years old andContinue Reading

as a little girl, i recall going on special breakfast dates with my dad. he worked outside of the house and had 3 daughters so these rotating dates provided him an opportunity for some good ol’ one on one with each of us. (i realize now how grateful i am to my mama, who mostContinue Reading

this mother’s day i am grateful as all get-out that i get to be the mama. THEIR mama. happy mother’s day to all the lucky mamas.

ian, i remember spending your birthday together in prague 10 years ago. we were so young and so free and our love was so new. it all seems a world away now. these days our universe spins around a muse and a marvel. they are so young and so free and their love is soContinue Reading

a year.  it’s been a year since marvel appeared on this earth.  right here in this house.  oh lovely day. i feel like i didn’t exist before marvel.  and in a way, it is true.  i feel like whoever i used to be is gone, replaced by koruna and marvel’s mama. i used to feelContinue Reading

some moments i feel like runa’s sun looks. some moments i feel like louie looks. it’s a roller coaster ride, raising young kids.  it makes me cry and it makes me laugh and sometimes it’s just SO MUCH that it makes me feel like i’m gonna scream and throw up. love it.