So long since I posted! I was sick with the stomach flu last week and it totally knocked me out.
Then, I stumbled upon this website (if it doesn’t come up right away, try again later…they are getting huge amounts of traffic and it won’t load at times)through my March play group on FF. Please, if you have time, read Jenny’s journal from start to finish. You will be blessed by it, as hard as it is to read. It is so very sad and I am just crushed for this family. My heart is broken for them. They live in the Dallas area and I am from the Metroplex. Jenny’s writing really brought Allie alive for me, and I can’t help but parallel her life with Mia’s. They are about 3 months apart in age.
It really made me think hard about some things. Life is so fragile and the time that the Scott’s had with Allie was so precious. Each day spent with Allie was one so full of love and adoration. I look at my own life and see time spent on things that are of no real importance. I see myself wasting precious moments on things like the computer and material things……time better spent with my children.
So, thus the break from my journal. I needed to think and re-organize my priority list.
I want to start back here with a new outlook. One full of joy and a positive attitude. One that celebrates the happiness and the pain of life and does not take one moment for granted. I want to study my children and husband in a different light. I want to know my daughter the way Jenny knows/knew Allie……..every hair on her head, every gesture, cry, squeal, facial expression.
Don’t get me wrong. Bill, Mia and the boys have always been the loves of my life. I know each of them intimately. I just want to change gears and slow down a bit to enjoy each and every moment of my children’s smallness and my husbands gentle spirit.
Thus, I will try and post short updates each day, focusing on them. No rants on topics that don’t concern me. No PMS, computer style. Just the smallness of my world here at the Marr house.
Life is short. Love hard.
Oh, and I look at Lance Armstrong in a whole new light now. What he is doing for cancer research and for the families affected by it has truly rocked my soul. You go, Lance!
Closing with a few scenes from Casa del Marr from my new Canon Power Shot A75!
Good morning sweet girl!:
“I love my big brother”:
Pretty in pink:
