the Sumners

Life is kicking my trash lately. That sounds so, well, trashy, but I just can't seem to keep up. Kids, keeping up one house, rebuilding another, pregnancy (not that I have bad pregnancies, they're nice and standard, if there is such a thing), but goodness...

Benjamin is 10 months. This first year has flown by. Not too quickly though, it actually feels about right. I feel like a human again and Ben is still the joy he has been from day one. He took his first steps last Thursday. One or two at the Changs'...

I feel asleep in the kids' rooms during nap time, and when I woke up I stared at sleeping Calvin and thought to myself, "What am I pouring into my kids' minds?" I literally thought of an open mind, you know the pictures, and inserted my children's faces...

It was better than a postcard. Green mountains topped with wispy clouds, blue sky and sea for miles, colorful, stucco houses built into the hillside, narrow roads and walkways winding their way down to a black rock beach, clear water, seafront shopping...