* i spent a lot of time after henry's birth beating myself up because it didn't happen exactly the way i wanted it to. in hypnobabies we are taught to create the kind of birth experience we want...
http://orangevelvetsofa.blogspot.com/2013/03/henrys-birth-story-part-two-birthing.html
37 weeks along. i've always been interested in natural childbirth. with my first pregnancy i considered it a very real option until i arrived at the hospital, panicked and nervous, and the nu...
http://orangevelvetsofa.blogspot.com/2012/08/henrys-birth-story-part-one-plans-and.html
5x7 Folded Card View the entire collection of cards.
http://orangevelvetsofa.blogspot.com/2011/09/merry-christmas-in-september.html
some "practice" pictures i took while we were at the greenbelt today. i hope you'll bear with me while i'm trying to improve and i'm inundating this blog with photos. now, if we could ju...
http://orangevelvetsofa.blogspot.com/2011/06/down-by-river.html
On Friday J. was having a hard time treating his sister nicely. He decided to pray and ask for the Holy Ghost to help him be nice. After he prayed he went to talk to his sister. J: S! Guess wh...
http://orangevelvetsofa.blogspot.com/2011/06/priceless-conversations.html
wabi sabi , originally uploaded by jowrites365 . i've been thinking a lot about photography lately, and why i'm drawn to it, and what kind of pictures i want to take. at millie's ballet dres...
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millie on stage (my pictures never look right on blogger. does anyone know how to fix this?) sometimes, when i forget how lucky i am to be a mom, i feel like motherhood is a series of breaki...
a couple of summers ago. no. really. what do you do in the summertime? when all your kids are out of school? don't get me wrong. i love my kids. so much. and i love the summer. but sometim...
http://orangevelvetsofa.blogspot.com/2011/05/oh-what-do-you-do-in-summertime.html
IMG_2895 , originally uploaded by jowrites365 . this is my husband, standing a few feet from the spot where he proposed to me nine years and a few months ago. on this day nine years ago we g...
http://orangevelvetsofa.blogspot.com/2011/05/nine-years-later.html
so i haven't been doing any blogging lately, or any checking on anyone else's blog (for which i apologize for being a bad blog friend.) i thought i was done with rough patches. but what i'v...
http://orangevelvetsofa.blogspot.com/2011/05/hiatus-over.html
tonight j. ran down the hallway and crashed into his sister. when i was putting him in bed i told him that he could pray to Heavenly Father for forgiveness, and that He can forgive our mistakes...
on valentine's day, i find myself thinking about love, about what it means to love people and especially what it means to me to love my husband. here are some quotes that i find resonate with ...
http://orangevelvetsofa.blogspot.com/2011/02/lovely-love-quotes.html
ok, so, joining a csa is one of those things i've been meaning to get around to for about a year now. and last tuesday i finally remembered to make my bountiful baskets order, and nate brough...
http://orangevelvetsofa.blogspot.com/2011/01/csa-or-in-other-words-how-not-picking.html
...i was ever afraid of having a boy. charlie, thank you for making my life silly, snuggly, exasperating, loud, and so much fun. when i saw you for the first time, and they put that bri...
http://orangevelvetsofa.blogspot.com/2010/12/i-cant-believe.html
today my little boy turned 4. yes, this one: how can he be 4? wasn't this yesterday? and now he's into buzz lightyear and planning his astronaut career. happy birthday to my p...
http://orangevelvetsofa.blogspot.com/2010/11/my-4-year-old.html
(little c. asleep on the couch.) "but the biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this. I did not live in the moment enough. this is particularly clear now that th...
halloween was short and sweet for us this year. the kids wanted to go to the school carnival without costumes, and i was fine with that. we went to the trunk-or-treat our community did and ...
http://orangevelvetsofa.blogspot.com/2010/11/some-things.html
this morning could have been disastrous. j. woke up grumpy again and was refusing to go to preschool and refusing to wear his yellow shirt as well (they are doing colors this month). i was trying...
we went to the park yesterday evening. it was 92 degrees out, but luckily we went to a great park with tons of big trees. it didn't seem very hot at all. i love how kids get so excit...
have you heard of the band the innocence mission? if you are a kid of the 90's, such as i, then you might remember their song "bright as yellow" which is one of their only tunes to really hit...
http://orangevelvetsofa.blogspot.com/2010/07/innocence-mission.html
here are some pictures i snapped before church today. question: do i usually have time to take pictures before church? answer: no, no i don't. p.s. sweet m. completely dressed herself...
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my sweetest of sweet m.'s, i can't believe you are seven now. what a great year you've had. first grade, lots of new friends, you were super girl for halloween, you got so sick we almost had ...
http://orangevelvetsofa.blogspot.com/2010/07/my-sweet-seven-year-old.html
this is what it looks like when my parents come and visit: my kids are happier, my house is cleaner, everything seems sunnier and more fun. please come back soon.
http://orangevelvetsofa.blogspot.com/2010/07/day-with-grandparents.html
i know it's silly but it makes me so happy to see him sleep. especially with his bum up in the air, which he is doing in this picture though you can't really tell.
http://orangevelvetsofa.blogspot.com/2010/06/no-time-to-sleep.html
we've had a busy-ish summer so far. sweet m. is taking ballet and doing t-ball, we've done a quick road trip, and park day is every tuesday. what's busy to us is probably pretty mellow for mos...
http://orangevelvetsofa.blogspot.com/2010/06/once-upon-summertime.html