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My Bell Jar
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"The bell jar hung, suspended, a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air...I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am." ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar,
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15.5 months and counting

He sits on my lap drinking a bottle before a napI smell the swirl at the crown of his headIt smells of salty sweat and grassA striped t-shirt and cargo shorts clad boy repeats wordsthe newest being b...

2 days ago

what i wore

3 days ago

just one of many examples

there is so much i want to tell you - my bloggy friends.there are so many ways God is providing for us right about now my heart is overwhelming with gratitude. just a few moments ago i got a tex...

4 days ago

Happy 30th Birthday!

The day is finally here! I wanted to honor you today Jess, by publicly affirming you - the wife and mother and woman that you are.               M...

24 may 12

...and, were DONE!

our social worker left our house this morning at 10:30am.as she was walking back to her car she said, "have a nice summer, ill see you soon."shell be back, the next time well see her shell be...

15 may 12

to my fellow mothers on mothers day: some words of encouragement

cuddling my sick boy on vacationIn this often costly job of motherhood, that doesnt pay with dollars and cents, but smiles and giggles and bear hugs i can often forget that what im attempting to cult...

13 may 12

what i wore...lately

I want to try to take more outfit pics because i like looking at them on a few of my favorite blogs. the problem is, i can never get a good picture on my own. maybe ill teach micah to work my camera ...

11 may 12

im not a crier, but...

this brought me to tears.its 8 minutes long and worth your time. http://www.desiring god.org/blog/posts/the-story-o f-ian-larissa

09 may 12

guys, seriously!

This is a big-lipped smooch from me to you!this has seriously been one of the (if not THE) most awesome surprise ever in the history of husband-awesomeness. It started innocent enough. I didnt feel g...

08 may 12

Youve been Blog-Jacked!

Ok, so Im not sure if "Blog-Jacked" is the right word, or even a word at all, but to the audience of My Bell Jar, this is not Jess, but rather her loving husband Curtis. You know, the good lo...

30 apr 12

guest post: my husband on adoption

Last week we were asked to share about our adoption at church on Sunday morning. We spent part of the week and much of the weekend talking about what aspect of it Curtis was going to talk about. Afte...

17 apr 12

in another year im gonna miss these days

In another year Im gonna miss the way his 25 lb body sinks into mine just rightNot too heavy but heavy enough to ground me like an anchorA paper weight on a stack of unstapled pagesLike my daysApt to...

12 apr 12

precious little lives

last night micah stood at the front window and watched Curtis mow the whole front yard. he literally stood there with a little plastic car in each hand for a good 20 minutes. it was so sweet. he just...

05 apr 12

adoption update: baby fever

adoption paperwork & other odds and ends in the afternoon lightMaybe its because a good friend is in labor today and Im anticipating holding her fresh newbie son Sammy sometime soon after he is b...

04 apr 12

catching up: first vacation as a family of three

While there were definitely wrenches thrown in to our first family vacation (for example: no kids under three allowed in the condos pool & a croup-like cough that led to an urgent care visit that...

03 apr 12

from the pages of this mornings journal

On Christmas eve the winter i was pregnant, they had us nail our biggest sin/struggle to a wooden cross at the front of the sanctuary as a way to symbolize that Christ took it away when he died on th...

07 mar 12

learning to play

micah is at a wonderful age where he is learning to play aloneever since we picked up {this train table} on our neighbors tree lawnhe has spent hours playing at it. often with me or whoever else he c...

02 mar 12

words to live by

i read this somewhere this week and immediately scribbled it up on our kitchen chalkboardevery time i walk into the kitchen i read itits slowly sinking in it has made me more sensitive to h...

01 mar 12

adios february

for a february, i cant remember a better one.big things have happened in the Penick household this monthgood things like {a sweet valentines day} and {a little boys birthday}i got my horses tail high...

01 mar 12

and just like that, the boy is weaned.

I know all of our routines are an ever changing lot but this onethis one has been with us since the hour he was bornfrom that first sleepy suck to last nightI almost cant imagine a new routine that d...

24 feb 12

and the boy is 1

i really dont even know what to sayive spent the last two daysreplaying last years eventshour by hour in my headwhen my water brokehow we went through the drive-thru at Starbucks on the way to the ho...

18 feb 12

our valentines day, in pictures

reading grandma & grandpa penicks valentines day cardlove, g&g penickour kitchen chalkboardi *heart* himour v-day mottowatercolorjust a little bit of v-day morning craftingwatercolor heart ga...

15 feb 12

love day

even with coughs and sniffles and ear infections and pink eye floating around our house for the last week i was determined to have a nice valentines day with my boys.with a little creativity and craf...

14 feb 12

v-daying it up

Micah is on day two of a fever. He was up much of the night burning hot, poor baby.So we spent part of our home bound morning turning a little corner of our dining room into a small corner of valenti...

08 feb 12

tree lawn treasures

as we were pulling into our driveway last night after the super bowl we noticed that our neighbors had put their train table on their tree lawn.so although our house is cozy (ie. small) we were in ag...

06 feb 12

adoption: an update for February 1st

You probably already know that we are in the thick of the "paperchase" to adopt an infant from Ohio.What for a while was a slow pace to take our time, to spread out the ages of our children a...

01 feb 12

afternoon nap

Micahs morning nap used to be my get er done time. (that is, until he stopped sleeping - except today, a rare morning nap that i am so thankful for)most mornings now i get stuff done with him underfo...

31 jan 12

climbing stairs

last week, under close supervision, Micah made it up two stairs all by himself.a few nights later, with Curtis right behind him, he climbed up the entire flight all by himself.this made me both a pro...

27 jan 12

first tooth

a few weeks ago this teething boy finally popped his first tooth.for goodness sakes, hes over 11 months old already, it was about darn timei was starting to wonder if he had teeth under those gums of...

26 jan 12

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