and today i'll trust you with the confidence
of a man who's never known defeat


goals for my new life, beginning september 1:

1. an hour of adoration once a week consistently
2. less sweatpants
3. keep coffee maker clean
4. daily rosary
5. make our home comfortable for ariel
6. volunteer at the women's shelter
7. join the choir or cantor
8. meditate



in one hour i will be done with this job. i can finally exhale. but it will have to wait until i get to michigan.

i love ariel more than anything in the whole world - and it's such a blessing that God has allowed our love for one another to be pruned and purified this summer so that we have no doubts about one another. i'm nervous, don't get me wrong, but it's mostly about logistics.

i've been trying to say my new name out loud to get used to it. not so much working.

i was packing up my stuff yesterday to bring to our place and i opened a trunk full of my old stuffed animals and stuff - my baseball glove, my first dance recital costume . . . i got really emotional thinking about how permanent this is. so i called ariel. he's been such a saint. i love that man so much. i love being able to depend on him.

sometimes i think i'm the most blessed woman in the whole world.
this is just rambling - sorry, been up all night.