SURPRISE!!

I wrote a post a few weeks ago celebrating our tenth wedding anniversary.  I’d been feeling a bit unwell lately, so imagine my darling husband’s surprise when, after our anniversary dinner, I shouted “SURPRISE!” and announced that I’d just discovered that we were having our third child.  How wonderful! How unexpected! A surprise indeed. Then we were robbed ten days later.  … Read More

The Best Part of Marrying Young…

…is that you get to grow up together.   We met when I was barely 20 years old.  He was 21, and had been back in America for two weeks after living in the Baltics for the last couple of years.  He spoke Russian and sometimes had to search in order to find the correct word in English. I fell … Read More