one-month-old family
when i look at this photo, i am surprised by how awake ian and i appear. i sometimes look in the mirror and don't want to recognize the gal i see - she looks haggard. a newborn and a two-year-old make for challenging company at times. ian and i often have to look at each other and sigh or shake our heads. sometimes we just laugh (to keep from crying). but every trying hour also holds in it such sweet, achingly beautiful moments.
i LOVE this. but honestly, there are instances (like when i can't get away from the smell of my son's spit-up because i am covered in it or when i feel like throwing a tantrum WITH my daughter) that i have to remind myself of that.
it's a full-spectrum life, parenthood.
the big sister
the past few weeks have been a whirlwind. for us all. but i think mostly for koruna. she started montessori preschool the week of marvel's birth.
i had been concerned about the timing of it for a while, knowing it would be so much change for her little heart to absorb.
but she is dealing with her life's earthquakes quite gracefully.
she continually surprises me with her grace. i hope i don't come to expect that of her, to take it for granted. i hope that she may always move through her life with ease and i hope that i am ever in awe of it.
wow.
wow. marvel is 3 weeks old and i haven't yet found a few minutes to describe his intricacies here. i don't know when i'll find the time. every minute since his birth has been full of love, of life, of pain and healing. words can't even touch the small grandeurs of our days. this love is too big.
one day maybe i'll manage to live this new life and write about it, but i'm not there yet...
oh, marvel
oh, the love! marvel heron ingram was born at home on monday, august 22nd.
he is astonishing. breathtaking. marvelous.
i'll write about these days soon - i'm just too busy living them right now.
