Shotsnaps

  The morning after we got home from the hospital, my mom met Ransom for the first time, and he was wearing this lovely hat. It was his only...

In January, I heaved a long-slumbering beast from its den. With spring saturating the air, soup doesn't seem quite so enticing, though....

Ever since I had Covid last April, I have what I call my "Covid cough," which is a mild bout of coughing every morning that lasts ...

Sigh. I have three months to slap on here until I reach the present. I figured you'd all appreciate a conciliatory gif from December.   ...

  So I have to start somewhere. How about Friday, November 13th, year of our Lord 2020? Hello to you, Ransom Arthur Owen! Though some assume...

Here's the lone picture of me and baby from the hospital. I'll take it, blurry and all. And the handsome Papa... I also thought it w...

We don't look at baby names until the baby arrives, so we spent most of Saturday thumbing through baby names books to see which would fi...

We were exhausted when we arrived home. The little children had stayed up past bedtime to meet their new brother and to find out his name, o...

Ransom and I were up most of the night, and Sunday morning was a blur. Somewhere in the middle of my throwing bins around in the basement to...

My chum extraordinaire hosted a surprise baby shower for me a couple of weeks before Ransom came, with church friends and surprise friends (...

A week and a half ago, I remarked to Millie that I've really enjoyed this winter, with heaps of snow and a lack of sub-zero temperatures...