Dear Tessa, I have joked with you all year that I won’t let you turn five. I threatened to turn you back to three on your birthday, and if that didn’t work I was keeping you at four, but you wouldn’t have it. You wanted to be five. As much as I admired your desire […]
I have been really bad about writing. It saddens me because I shared so many of my thoughts and about Christian over the years. Life just seemed to happen and I forgot to write. I know I will look back one day and regret it, so all I can do moving forward is to remember […]
In the summer of 2018 I noticed that you were squinting one eye while doing some activities like coloring, or putting beads on a necklace. For a while it was only when you were at our dining room table and you would say ” the sun is in my eyes”. I didn’t think much of […]
Dear Tessa, I want to apologize for not being good at keeping up with the blog for you. It’s not that I don’t want to, but life happens and I have less time to sit and write. But I do want to remember things, so I wanted to write you your birthday post. At this […]
Kids can handle alot more than we think, but there are just some things I don’t believe they have to face. Innocence lasts only too long, and my kids have been lucky enough to have those important to them still around. So when I realized Tinkerbell was in distress I asked a friend for help […]
After the Alter is a blog about my "life after the alter" meaning after being married, and the changes that go with it. I am a mom to a beautiful boy and girl who are the stars of this blog, and a little Pomeranian named Tinkerbell. I LOVE being married to Captain Awesome, and here I share stories of my life as I learn how to be the best wife and mom I can be, and all my crazy thoughts along the way.
