mother's day

celebrated again this year with ryan's mom, so good to have her here with us. love my 3 boys so much - so many emotions and thoughts and words in just one day as i live with these little men. i am amazed by each one of them - how they learn, disobey, grow, explore, discover, question, resist, challenge, love, grieve, play, and just live. i am blessed.

i like this

"If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation."

- Madeleine L'Engle, The Irrational Season

ezekiel 9 months

crawling
clapping
smiling
babbling
eating
waking up during the night
loving his brothers
listening
watching
drooling unproductively = no teeth