making a comeback

I need to get better about blogging more regularly, and I realize this in the moments with Grace and Zara that a snapshot never seems to do justice. In fact, some days, the only thing that would do justice to the simultaneous chaos & wonder would be if I could freeze time and somehow package our most precious moments to be re-opened at a later date when our blessings seem less prolific. But, until Apple comes up with an app for that, a blog will have to do. And I will have to re-dedicate myself to the cause.

I started out a little too ambitious and a little too literary. In the business of my life as a full-time mom and a full-time professor, the words come less easily and spare moments are spent attempting some feat of cleaning (or at least neatening) or, you know, showering. Most times, I feel like trying to cobble words together to form coherent sentences is a challenge, let alone words in sentences that I would feel confident enough about to make public on this blog.

One thing I've learned in the past 3 and a half years since I became a mom is that women today can have it all. I am proof of that. But that also means we have to do it all, and to do it all, we just have to make it simple. So today begins my renewed attempt at blogging, replete with a renewed focus on the things in my life that I am thankful for. I make no promises that my stories will evoke tears or that I will even come close to conveying the hilarity, insanity, wisdom, beauty, or frustration that I experience in my day-to-day life with my family, but I will do my best to detail something each day to give thanks for. And in this way, I hope to become a more thankful person...one that is more aware and conscious of the beauty that surrounds me. Wish me luck...