this is the first page of the first chapter of our lives. at least from this point forward. or as far as this blog is concerned. that thought makes me excited. like a kid after candy. or me after candy. i spent 10 bucks on candy last week. gosh. i’m such a little kid. but i love that. and i love that i can feel giddy like a kid on christmas simply because i am getting to write this. to transcribe a bit of my heart. to welcome the future and to share the past. but even as we sit here, at the crest of page one, we must realize that the story is far from just beginning. the prologue has been long and winding. a mess of hellos and goodbyes. rambling on for the past two years. defined by airplane flights and cell phone overages. but through that we have arrived here.

and so it begins…