Can Someone PLEASE Tell Me WHY...

... it is SO EASY for this little person to fall asleep at 3 or 4-ish pm on any given day...

...but then after I've done a song and dance routine to keep her awake she is STILL AWAKE and going strong at 8:30, 9:30 and very often even 10:30pm????

And then up at 6am the next morning??????

Answers please.
I welcome them all.

Sad

This makes me so sad. More on it here. I didn't realize a building could make me sad. But this has really affected me. I heard about the fire first from my friend, Tim -- a fellow former Longfellow Parker and HBS employee, too. Tim put into words much of how I feel.

I loved this place. Have so many many memories there - everything from Halloween dances dressed as a crayon (or another year as a Hershey kiss -- see incriminating photo below) and Christmas choir concerts and the infamous munch-n-mingles and of course, countless wonderful Sunday worship services. I met so many phenomenal friends there, and I discovered a lot about myself there. I met Bryce there. We had our wedding luncheon there. And now it's gone. And I'm really sad about that.

I remember my first time to this chapel. Loving everything about Boston and Harvard Square and this fabulous new adventure I'd begun. It feels at the same time like a lifetime ago and also just the other day. I sat on the front steps meeting people who would become dear friends. And then on Sunday, and almost every Sunday, stuffing into the Relief Society room, chairs all squished together to make room for everyone. That beautiful round window in the chapel. Bunches of law students and business students and graduate students of every flavor all throwing their two cents on the topic of the Sunday School lesson. "Super Cute" Sundays and meeting all the newbies. Risking parking tickets to park in the side streets as close as possible to the building for meetings/activities. A billion activities. This building was my center for those almost-four years in Boston. Wow, I could really get nostalgic here. I'm shocked and saddened that it's gone. But grateful that I was able to be a part of that building - or that it was a part of me. And still is, actually, even though it's gone.

Melyn, Jodi, JaNeece and I at the Longfellow Park building in our famous Hershey Kiss costumes -- let me tell ya, BIG hit in a singles ward. ;)

from our wedding luncheon inside the building-- such dear dear Boston friendsditto on this picClassic photo. Would you believe that this is about as good a pic as I have of the two of us at our wedding luncehon. Thanks for snapping this one, Ellen! And thanks, Longfellow Park building for hosting this special occasion!

Another Reason to Love the MBASA

There are about a hundred reasons why I've loved Bryce's MBA program these last two years and about 97 of those reasons have to do with being a member of the MBA Spouse Association. This group is so incredibly active - there are always a number of things going on in any given week to keep occupied while your hubby is studying away. And these fellow spouses are a GREAT resource from everything to diapers and recipes to exercising support and reading recommendations. So anyway, two spouses recently offered to take photographs and I jumped - no make that jumped - at the chance. So voila!! Here are some of the fantastic results! Thank you sooo much, Natalie & Candida!!