Hi, I’m Danica.

I guess I’m a lot of things: a wife, a mom, a daughter, a sister, a crafter, a cook, a reader, a writer, a homemaker, a pianist, and probably a lot more too. But at the end of the day, I’m just a Christian trying to find and obey God’s will.

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2011 thoughts

Friday, January 6th, 2012

[A post written for my benefit. Bear with me!]
Here we are, almost to the second week of January. Wow. Really?
New Year’s Eve caught me unprepared (as it seems to have done for several years counting.) Where did the year go? Sand slipping between my fingers — it can seem like a vapor. And yes, in [...]

i’m here.

Friday, November 4th, 2011

I’ve never, ever gone this long without updating my blog. Never. But for whatever reason — busy, foggy head, other thing to do, can’t put it in words, first I’ll download all my photos — I haven’t written here in so long that I actually forgot the url to get here. Just for a second, [...]

jameson is five

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

:: loves Olivia, Richard Scary, Toot and Puddle, and Swiss Family Robinson — and loves that he knows his letters well enough to find favorite shows on our list of DVR’d recordings.
:: plays all day long with William. They are best buds (and don’t even know it yet, which is so sweet to me. They [...]

memorizing moments

Friday, August 26th, 2011

Soon I will write about the night Beatrice came to join us.
But recalling pulls me away from this moment, and living this moment is begging for all my attention these days. Each fleeting moment of baby fists curled like rosebuds, of cheeks-so-soft and lips-so-small, of new baby smell growing fainter and fainter, of tiny body [...]

today

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

Today, I am three weeks from my due date. So, so soon, our family will change forever. We’ll meet someone we’ll love instantly, and who will change the shape of who we are.
Today, I am folding towels and sheets and washcloths and sealing them up, labeling them “clean”, and checking one more thing of [...]

lunch with my boyz

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

We converse. Sometimes it sounds like this:
J: (holding index finger and thumb an inch apart) When you were two, were you this big?
Me: No! When I was that big, I was still in my mama’s tummy!
J: Oh
[pause]
J: Did you have fun in there?
Mostly we eat. It looks like this: