Isaac, have you been drinking a lot of beer while I’ve been at work? No. <<big smile>> You’re lying. The house is clean and it looks like you vacuumed. Yeah, I cleaned! And I sent a ton of important emails and texts AND did some schoolwork. Do you think I could do all of those…
My aunt sent this to me in an email today and I just had to share it. It’s scary how true some of these are… How Do You Decide Who To Marry? You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like, if you like sports, she should like it that you like sports,…
I can’t imagine a day when I won’t think he is just the greatest and most amusing person alive. Now that we both have “Facetime” I can call him while he is upstairs doing homework and I am supposed to be studying downstairs. Like I needed one more distraction, and one more way to interrupt…
The other night my fiance, Isaac, was tucking me in (yes, he does that every night). As he was rubbing my back I half jokingly/half asleep demanded, “name 17 things you love about me.” Without missing a beat he started listing things he loves about me, occasionally stopping to ask what number he was on.…
Ten years ago I was a freshman in high school, sitting in my first period cooking class in Fairfax, VA. My teacher turned on the television at about 9:30 am so we could see the news, she had heard that a bomb went off in the Pentagon. A few minutes after turning on the television,…
In September of 2007 I began an internship at Dolphin Research Center in the Florida Keys. I quickly bonded with all of my internship buddies, and one in particular. Isaac Perry was his name. He was hilarious and I felt like I had known him my whole life, not just a few weeks. After an…
See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! –1 John 3:1 This past weekend, after much anticipation, I met my new nephew, Liam. This 7 pound squirming little human made my heart happier than I can ever remember. He slept in my arms…
Happy Father’s Day, Pops! Thank you for…. Attempting to style my reckless hair every morning on both of our cross country road trips and listening to the “Silly Songs” tape on repeat for 3,000 miles each way Not turning to cannibalism and eating me when we got stranded in a blizzard on the Donner Pass…
The Other Courtney 