This moment: 6/28/13
Posted on | June 28, 2013 | 1 Comment
Rest in peace sweet Haley:
Posted on | January 8, 2013 | 5 Comments
December 25: Merry Christmas!
Posted on | December 25, 2012 | No Comments
This moment: a day in the office
Posted on | January 13, 2012 | 2 Comments
December 19
Posted on | December 19, 2011 | 2 Comments
December 5
Posted on | December 5, 2011 | 1 Comment
December 3
Posted on | December 3, 2011 | 5 Comments
Homesteading, a lifestyle of simple self-sufficiency. Aaah.
Posted on | March 8, 2011 | 3 Comments
The past seven days, I've slept at night. Can you believe it? Four years of handling emergencies at three am and hittin' the sack while others get their morning cup o' joe - it feels a bit surreal. I haven't worked very many evening shifts due to my new ten hour shift position, so we will see how the new team works (obstetric nursing is big time into the team work of coworkers - it makes or breaks your shift) come this weekend. Either way, I'm still sleeping next to the husb at night; and that alone is worth it.
In other news - we built the chicken coop over the weekend! I took the ladies out for an hour yesterday to explore close to their soon to be home, and it was fantastic. The once furry easter chicks are now teeangers raring to get out in the real world, their mother being just a ready (a dusty bathroom is not a happy one). About three weeks and they will be fully feathered young adults.
Chicks, the new kids.
Posted on | February 26, 2011 | 1 Comment
Nothings gonna' change my world
Posted on | February 24, 2011 | 1 Comment
I woke up to a burning throat this am; a slow incineration overnight, a sad realization that mother's faith in airborne did not work. However I am one of those folks that pretend their not sick when they truly are. So today I cleaned the garage, the house, got groceries, and hit up the hardware store - all with my lovely of course. He is my own personal cough medicine, after all.
This afternoon admist cleaning I perused the interweb. I came across this quote in a fantastic blog - 'someday you will miss today.' I stared at the computer screen with awe - so simple, yet so true. I walked over to our dining room window, coffee in hand. I caught a doe chomping on grass through the fresh powder than coated our property overnight. I can't quite explain the peace I felt in that moment, knowing how true that quote surely is.
I've always looked forward, yearning for what's next. But today I realized - what's the harm in relishing the current affair of your life? I can gaurantee I will miss today, someday.
So to appreciate this someday memory, I trekked the property, taking in the supposed 'winter storm' of Western Oregon '11 (a whopping 3 inches that closed county schools, yo).
I have two questions for you
Posted on | February 17, 2011 | 3 Comments
I met a boy.
Posted on | July 2, 2010 | 1 Comment
Okay, time to confess.
I've been seeing this boy every evening while my husband is at work. He is pensive, loves the outdoors, and surprisingly smells of lavender and mint. Sometimes we watch a film and cuddle (all on his say, of course). Other days I tell him of my troubles while he carefully listens, only chiming in when necessary. Tonight we shared tuna fish for dinner, and then danced in the living room to Gustavo Santaolalla. He loves when we dance, did I mention that?
Furbabies
Posted on | February 16, 2010 | 1 Comment
"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened." - Anatole France
Our "oops" child
Posted on | January 28, 2010 | 3 Comments
On an ordinary day in May '08, our nine year old lab refused to go poop (sorry, it's the easiest way to say it). She would walk around the yard squatting invisible turds of nothingness, slowly becoming a bloated mess. So naturally, we took her to the vet. Of course this turned out to be constipation ($200 dollars worth of constipation). Our vet nonchalantely said as we were leaving, "she's probably only has 1 or 2 good years left." A plump breeder, we'll call her Devious, chimed in and said they have the best English Labradors in Southern Oregon. B naturally is interested as Devious tells him how she has puppies a bit too old to sell full price so we'll get one at half - "They make fabulous hunting dogs - and OH you should see them with children!" We slept on this a day or two and one morning B said "I think we'll go get that dog!" I mumbled something like, "err okay zzz" while I lay in bed partially conscious. Later as we drove to a little farm in the rural high desert of Oregon, it hit me - why are we getting a third dog? I immediately envisioned insane amounts of yellow hair and a broken down pooper scooper. But oh how a puppy face and woo you.
Hot off the press
Posted on | January 12, 2010 | 3 Comments
Getting called in at 3:00 AM to circulate a cesarean section: lousy
Having a bank call my mother stating that someone [no idea] died, & I am the beneficiary: befuddling
And that, my friends, is what's new with me [in concise format].
- April
- I am a RN & natural momma in the Pacific Northwest, married to a beautiful man I adore. Nature is my niche, animals get me. I read and I write, I hike and I love photography. Welcomed our daughter Hazel Annan earthside in February 2012 after three years of infertility & our second miracle daughter Juniper Louise in April 2014.
