Mom managed to visit Princeton during one of the most beautiful weeks of the year. The trees lining the streets look like impressionist art, my oven is sure to have pumpkin bread rising inside and sweater weather is in full stride.
But to be real, Mom came to help keep Chris and I sane and our baby alive. Chris is in the throes of PhD applications, midterm papers and daily chapters of first century Greek translations. And I'm balancing an upcoming evaluation at work and the responsibilities and joys of motherhood, pushing me to brew and drink my first full cup of coffee ever today.
"The days are long but the years are short," I am told, so we paused to remember this October with a few photos (before I pulled my first almost all-nighter since college, Chris cleaned all the cloth diapers and translated the Testament of Abraham, Mom did all the chores and ran all the errands, and Mary Allison cut her first tooth.)
Dang me and my bad focus!
All our love,
b + c + ma
