Category: Life with Mr. Marvelous

  • My Two Guys

    Already an estimated 8 pounds (pray for me!!) and glorious chubby cheeks to prove it! Proud daddy taking in the pictures of his son. THANK YOU, DEAR LORD. MY CUP RUNNETH OVER.

  • Beach Boys

    I am getting ready to visit my two favorite beach boys. It has been far too long. A love like ours should not be separated by seven hundred miles. It should be right next door where it belongs, with bed time snuggles and bunny kisses and belly laughs. Alas, the miles cannot separate us-as I…

  • Baby of Mine

    Rest your head close to my heart never to part Baby of mine.

  • Guess What?

    I am going to have a SON. More on this when I come down from Cloud Nine . . . “Sons are a heritage from the Lord, children a reward from Him.” Psalms 127:3

  • 18 Weeks in Love

    “Bless the Lord, O my soul: And all that is within me, bless his holy name!”Psalm 103:1

  • Time out for Marriage: Or Things To Remember

    My husband has a tiny scar beneath his left eye that is the only visible reminder of his run-in with the chicken pox at age 6. I love that scar. I remember falling in love with that scar some 8 years ago now-as well as the rest of him. As I was laying in bed…

  • Dear Birthday Boy,

    My Dearest A, Do you know that you were born into this world 6 years ago today? And that I remember your first breath? That I memorized the sound of your first cry and the feel of your tiny finger when it reached for mine? Did you know that it has been you and me,…

  • Hanging in There

    Thank you so much to everyone who reached out to me the past week to see how/where I have been. I would be happy to report that my nausea started to let up some in the past few weeks, but sadly the nausea was replaced immediately by migraine headaches of a wicked severity-of course, including…

  • Prescription for “Morning” Sickness

    1. Bottomless glass of ginger ale 2. Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken on DVD 3. One Mr. Marvelous, willing to make grocery store runs for no. 1 and to sit through and feign interest in no. 2 Random ramblings on an otherwise queasy Saturday night,

  • First Nursery Purchase!

    In an effort to get my mind off my ever-present nausea, Mr. Marvelous and I went to a local antique store this weekend and picked up this fabulous little armoire for the nursery! I’m just in love with it! I planned on priming and painting it white but the bright funky blue is sort of…