Author Archives: erika

Connecting

I guess I’m on the four posts a year trend…if that. That means I only have three more to go though. Just wanted to share something that brought me great peace. Trust me, I’m not going to get all preachy, but I am a minister so it is allowed. See. Here’s proof. I’ve been pretty [...]

Diabetic, running (somewhat), college-student mama

Pretty sad when the most recent pictures posted to the right are from a YEAR ago… alas, this blog is a little dusty but cobwebs do go well with the season of the witch. My littles are not so little anymore. One has a freaking mowhawk and the other is a sixteen year old bucket [...]

Poignant

Kyle and I have spent the last three months watching Six Feet Under (HBO’s series that ran from 2001-2005). Okay, we may have been late to the party, but hey, at least we showed up. We finished it last week and the final few episodes were almost too much to bear, especially given the circumstances [...]

Truly Thankful.

I’m thankful for at least one more holiday…one more Thanksgiving…one more Christmas…one more season wrapped in the warmth of my family. I am thankful for time, however short it may be. My grandma is dying of liver cancer. Dying. And until recently, I have resisted the reality of it with every part of my being. [...]

The shoe still fits.

I ran today. It’s been almost three months, but I managed to not sleep through the alarm, fit my much-larger-than-three-months-ago ass into my running tights, and breathe heavily and laboriously through 30 straight minutes. I would mark this one in the huge accomplishment category, especially since I was thinking that my running shoes would be [...]

Halloween Weekend…let the festivities begin!

It’s blog or die here. Honestly, if I can’t get into the habit of writing consistently, then this thing is going to disappear. I appreciate all of the support from friends and family to write, so here it is… Anyone who knows us probably knows that Halloween is huge around here. It’s even bigger than [...]

Life.

I can’t believe that I’m blogging. It’s been awhile, but Liv came home sick from school and is sporting a fever so my original plan of heading to the store to get supplies for homemade chili has turned into an afternoon home at the computer. Things have become overwhelming around here. There’s drama and I [...]

Can we still call her “Baby Girl”?

Liv Ellen is 3 years old. Her birthday last Saturday came during a time of difficulty for our family, which is further proof that she is in our lives for a reason. In the midst of even the worst of times, Liv brings us pure, simple happiness and love (I’m not in the running for [...]

Where’s a DeLorean when you need one?

Life smacked me in the face…literally. I lost the month of August. It disappeared. I’d do anything to have it back, but I don’t want to re-live it so it can stay lost and I’ll happily move on. Bye-bye, August…hello, September. I need to post about my baby girl’s 3rd birthday, but first I must [...]

Tellum Envy

Have I really been sporting a “reverse mullet” for over a year? Have I walked the streets of Cleveland with people looking at me thinking, “that girl has a Kate Gosselin hair-do”? Do I want to run to the salon screaming “help”? Apparently, it’s a big, fat YES to all three. And I had no [...]