dripping with passion

  i feel like i am drowning!! first, because my face is so full of mucus (you know that my-head-is-constantly-under-water-and-i-kind-of-can’t-breathe sensation?!).  second, because the late-pregnancy nesting instinct is so intense inside me that i feel like my to-do list is so massively long and significant. third, because being heavily pregnant + fighting a bad head cold + caring for a sick toddler has really left me feeling like i’m just furiously treading water and fighting for air! phew! it’s been a wild few weeks since we got back from morocco. baby brother is coming soooooon and physical health around here sure hasn’t been top notch and life has just been busy, busy.    but gosh, life is good. there is so much to be grateful for and to delight in — and i love my life. i feel drowning in a crazy chapter, but i’m so excited about what is now and what is soon. right now my body is so so tired and my brain is so so foggy and my spirit sometimes feels malnourished ... but gosh, li...

  a normal day! holding it in my hand this one moment, i have come to see it as more than an ordinary rock. it is a gem, a jewel...normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. let me learn from you, love you, savor you, bless you before you depart. let me not pass you by in a quest for some rare and perfect tomorrow. let me hold you while i may, for it will not always be so. one day i shall...want more than all the world your return. and then i will know what i now am guessing: that you are, indeed, a common rock, and not a jewel, but that a common rock made of the very mass substance of the earth in all its strength and plenty puts a gem to shame.  -mary jean irion i’ve been trying to savor my current  normal days  as i've been anticipating the total change in them coming up with baby’s arrival in april (and again a bit later when i go back to school and start working again part-time). i so want to remember keenly this one-child, stay-at-home-mom, living-in-and-loving-lo...

i started working on faith-based q&a posts during little mo’s afternoon nap today, but man, i’m exhausted – there’s some heavy stuff in there, and it doesn’t help that i was up most of the night last night barfing (no idea where that came from, but i’m feeling much better today). soooo i’m just going to share some pictures from life lately on the blog today. ian took the cfa exam last saturday, and so we’ve begun a new study-free chapter of life – yay! we are in a pretty happy place as a family right now. ian and i are consistently and earnestly working on strengthening our marriage, moses is just so much fun , and london is dreamy in the warmer weather (although we’ve had a couple of blustery, rainy days this week – but i like a bit of variety!). we have lots to look forward to in the coming months (especially spending time with family in the usa), i feel that i am being challenged in productive ways, and life is good. i am grateful!   ^^ on the bus the other day, moses ...