Much love to ya

Pardon me for this, those of you with a sensitive gag reflex, but right at this moment I am filled with an overwhelming affection for you guys. I sit here in my sunny living room with my daughter asleep on my lap and your faces float in and out of my mind. My heart swells. My cup runneth over and I wish I had adequate art within to compose a love sonnet to each of you.
Instead, it's like a bad Oscar speech inside my head "Sister, thank you for your exuberant support of my every dumb-headed move; "Amber thank you for always laughing at, instead of despising me for, my deeply held and oft-practiced character flaws," Jeremy - thanks for keeping our friendship going all these years despite my nuttiness....But woah - talk about inadequate. Those acts aren't the reasons for my undying devotion to you. I love you for you, or at least the parts of you I know, such as my mother's open mind and Rachel's wit and Kendy's beauty and Beth's thoughtfulness in the broadest sense of the word, not just the Hallmark sense, and Alicia's rationality and kind heart and ugh I cannot do this well. But Emily could, because she does have more than adequate art. As does my amazing husband.
None of those things do you justice. There are too many overlapping reasons to list and so I will cease and desist for now. Know that I recognize this post does not give me a pass on telling you in person how much I care for you. As I do. Truly, madly, deeply.

OK, moment over, get back to work.










Oops I almost let you go without a new baby pic. How silly of me. Here's one of Anna and Sammy, her cousin born two days after she.