Tag Archives: job hunt

Ruts

March 13, 2013 · by · in Babies, blogging, Family, Life, Parenting · 62 Comments

I’m in a rut, but it’s the kind of rut that comes about not from mundane habit but from new stimuli. The last couple weeks have decimated any routine I was on with C and we’re starting to feel the brunt of it. Sometimes I forget what a finely-tuned clock a baby is until a grain […]

Grapes, Balls, Colds, and Love

February 11, 2013 · by · in Babies, Family, Life, Love, Marriage, Parenting · 60 Comments

I just had one of those moments. One of those moments that I really, really need these days. First, some background. I have not been sleeping well. I think the last time I slept all the way through the night without waking was about three weeks ago. Let that sink in a sec: my baby […]

I’m not freaking out this time.

January 21, 2013 · by · in Family, Life, Marriage · 57 Comments

When I started writing here, I called this space The Waiting because I was waiting on C to be born and also because Tom Petty is awesome and I wish I were related to him.* But then she was born and I realized that waiting is kind of a big thing in my life, as […]

Cover letters are also not so fun.

January 9, 2013 · by · in blogging, Life · 43 Comments

B’s job hunt continues. This basically means two things: 1, that I am not sleeping so well but the time I spend awake in bed at night is spent in prayer, which it probably should be all the time, even when things are going splendidly. Praying, meditating, and focusing on all that I already have […]

Some thoughts for Friday. Because it’s Friday already. I know, I’m shocked too.

January 4, 2013 · by · in blogging, Family, Life · 58 Comments

This is another installment in the “Emily doesn’t really have a theme to her blog right now but that’s OK” series. In related news, I am enjoying my relaxed hold on blogging. Treating this space more like the diary I originally intended it to be feels right. I am, however, working on a piece on […]