by Jenn Pipe | Jun 2, 2011 | Kids, Life, Love, Scrapbooking
You were perfectly pink on the day you were born, seven years ago. With your black tuft of hair, your kissable lips, and the broken blood vessel on the tip of your nose (that we can still see, if we look hard enough). I loved your sweet baby newness. Your warmth. Your...
by Jenn Pipe | May 19, 2011 | Current Affairs, Kids, Life, Love, Music, Scrapbooking
I consider myself very fortunate. I have two beautiful, healthy, kind, intelligent, and athletic elementary-aged children. They have taught me more about life in the past 10 years than I ever learned on my own. Being that they are in elementary school, we get to...
by Jenn Pipe | May 12, 2011 | Kids, Life, Love, Scrapbooking
The memories of my childhood are sometimes spotty, and sometimes it will take a photograph or a detailed reminder from a family member to gently dust the cobwebs off of the recesses of my mind. Time has a way of doing that, of tucking away what were once your most...
by Jenn Pipe | Apr 20, 2011 | Kids, Life, Love, Scrapbooking
Ten years ago today, a week overdue, she came into this world. From her first breath, she was bright-eyed, alert, and eager to soak it all in. There was this sense of “knowing” about her (for lack of a better word), and it seemed like she was already very...
by Jenn Pipe | Nov 17, 2010 | Kids, Life, Love, Scrapbooking
One of the main blessings of stepping back and reevaluating my life 18 months ago is that I have been able to spend a LOT of time with my children. We have gotten to know each other in a way that working 40-60 hours a week in a cubicle simply does not allow. I have...
