Happy Birthday, Dear Blog!!

Yesterday was my birthday, but today it’s the blog’s turn. Happy 1st birthday, baby blog!! You’ve grown so much in one short year. It’s a celebration, to be sure, that this blog is still kicking, still claiming its real estate on the World Wide Web. It will not fall to exhaustion, depression or disrepair. “These Are My Reasons” is still a great title with worthwhile content and fantastic readers. Thank you all for hanging on my every word. You make me feel like we’re all in this together! Please stay posted for change. I’ll be relaunching soon, and there will be plenty of opportunities for you to help me out!

Life. It’s real tonight. I’m crippled by its beauty, its ugliness and its unpredictability. Who could have known we’d all be in the places we are now? I pined for children, and now I have them crawling everywhere, making dirty laundry faster than I can believe and eating me out of the house, but with all good things like string cheese, ham, apples and endless peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. “Yes, Max, yours also has butter….. Yes, Max, I know you don’t want it folded up. …. Yes, Max, there’s butter under the peanut butter and jelly…..”

Sometimes paradise wears a funny face. Don’t be blind to your own.

I’m having serious trouble keeping my eyes open. The night promises to be long with kids with ear aches. This might not be the best post, but it is what it is, right? I’m happy and grateful to have been able to write it. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it now, life is beautiful just the way it is.

Peace…