With Molly this time

Happy Birthday Mollly

You are turning twelve, even though it feels like the world has stopped. It's been months of deferred attention, and even your birthday week has been interrupted by life: by the death of your Nona. And you have shown incredible grace, strength, and clarity in these difficult times. Zach says (and I think he gets this from somewhere, but I can't remember his source): difficulty doesn't make character, rather it reveals character. And the difficulties of the past months have revealed so much of your remarkable character. One that rises to the occasion, looks around, sees what needs to be done, and does it. 

Nona always loved these birthday letters to you and Clara. I'm not sure what the next year will have in store for us, much less for this blog. But in Nona's honor, I am, at the very least, posting this letter to you, my amazing Molly, on your twelfth birthday. May it be filled with light and peace. 

Love always, mama

February Roundup

Not many pictures from this impossibly painful month.

There's this bit of love from Clara:

And this touching photo of Nona with Tom, the PT guy who worked so hard with her:

A few more pictures from Lassen:

And this amazing goofball:

(post written November, 2017)

Winter fun at Lassen Volcanic National Park

After having so much fun there last summer, we had to come back and see what winter was like at Mount Lassen. It was awesome.

January roundup

Just everything from January. Posting this in November, looking back on a difficult month and it's nice to see that there were many moments of lightness in there:

Molly at work

Math homework help with Pa

Yay for grandparents!