Tag Archives: love

Man with Baby

By Erin | Published: January 20, 2012

Jesse doesn’t hold many babies. (I can count on one hand the number of babies I’ve seen him hold. One.) It’s not that he doesn’t like babies. He just doesn’t have much experience with them, and therefore resists holding them. To him, they seem fragile and unpredictable. When babies become toddlers, he becomes the “fun [...]

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Weekend

By Erin | Published: January 16, 2012

We had a lovely weekend, one of those fun but calm weekends, a time to ourselves. We ate out, lounged in Barnes and Noble, shopped at the outlets in Myrtle Beach (Christmas money!), did a bit of laundry, napped. Not much work got done, and that was just fine. Last night, I made an artichoke [...]

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The Big Announcement

By Erin | Published: January 12, 2012

As many of you found out yesterday, we have news! (And no, we’re not pregnant.) Jesse is quitting his job in March to go back to school for computer animation. This decision was a long time coming. It’s almost hard for me to believe it’s actually happening. We had been talking about the need for change [...]

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Quiet

By Erin | Published: January 9, 2012

The semester will begin soon, and all will be noise and motion, but in the days leading up to that, I’m trying to consciously enjoy the quiet. Last night, Jesse and I took a walk around the neighborhood with a couple neighbors we recently met. Later, at home, Jesse sat on the living room floor [...]

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Be What You Already Are

By Erin | Published: October 14, 2011

As I was lying around my parents’ house this weekend, trying to recover the ability to eat solid foods, we watched several ’90s movies on VHS that my mom had bought at a yard sale. In between bouts of some Beethoven sequel and The Little Rascals, my parents brought out a video letter I made [...]

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