Epps in Qatar

• A Little Drive, a Little Perspective 13 hours ago Saturday. It was time to get moving and get lost. It had been too long, and my gypsy gene was getting restless. Newborn babies do after all have a way of disrupting the explorer in you. Particularly babies who scream the moment they're placed in a car seat. But it was time. The news had been...
• My, How Far We've Come 1 week ago Five years ago I celebrated my first mother's day as a mom. And while Jeff and I had been thrilled about the pregnancy, I was more than a little ambivalent when our first came along. For almost 10 years of marriage, it had been just the two of us, Jeff and I, enjoying our blessed freedom, diving...
• These Moments 1 week ago It's been a week of crocodile tears. Big, fat crocodile tears combined with shoulder-heaving sobs. A week of second-guessing my mothering instincts, as I waver between, "you're not that sick, get to school," and "come here, scooch up on my lap, let me wipe those tears away."My spitfire 5-year old...
• Three Months Already! 3 weeks ago Here she is, our growing girl. It's been another wonderful month. Just tonight, to celebrate her third month among us, she rolled over from belly to back. Three times, just to let us know she had it down. Just a month ago, I looked back through blog posts of Kaiya's first year with us, and I shook...
• Barzan Olympic Park 3 weeks ago Last weekend was HOT...the kind that had me lamenting that it was the beginning of the end, of trying to find creative, indoor methods to tame weekend madness (we Epps need our outdoor time). Thankfully, I was wrong, and it has been a beautiful week; hot but lovely, with cool evening temperatures...

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