Stacie's Theory of Relativity

Stacie's Theory of Relativity.... 

R.espite

E.quals

L.oving

A.ll

T.hose

I.

V.alue

I.n

T.he

Y.ears... Me, my child, my family For a Moment in Time....

Respite is a moment in time, no matter how brief.

It is spending time with you and going back in the past to remember who you are.

It is spending time with a spouse and remembering why you got married or even said hello to them.... creating future memories.

It is holding on to a moment in time that is for you, even briefly, that reminds you of who you are (the person you were or thought you would be)...

It is living in a moment with those you love....

It is spending time with a child and forgetting the disability...

Respite is not about the hours in a day you have to take care of a child.  It is about the hours in life you are given and how you will spend those moments.  Respite is about spending time with the most important  or more importantly, share those moments with others....

This is 10 minutes of my life to post.,.... share with others... my respite.

Written by my Sweetheart

15 Years Today, "The Best part of Me Was Always You"

I'm falling to pieces, the best part of me was always you...
The Script video here...

Happy Anniversary Sweetheart!

I do love you.

Beginnings and Endings

Six years John and I lived the two career couple married life.

Six years.

Six years of love.  Six years of supporting each other, learning about ourselves and our spouse, building toward a strong future, creating a home, a social network, careers, investing in causes we believed in... John enjoyed rollerblading... I roller-bladed (sometimes I stayed upright).  I wanted to contribute... John organized beach clean ups with me and trekked to the Wildlife Waystation each weekend.  John wished to dive... we earned our PADIcertification, I received the advanced certification (just enough to go most places we desired to go) and he continued through to a rescue certification. 

Above, John at the Santa Barbara Harbor.

Those six years were difficult, challenging, amazing and loving.  I frequently revisit those years in my mind... the good and the bad.  The relationship we built in that time is the foundation we live upon now.

One day I felt different.  It will go away, I am just not feeling well I told myself.

I believe this was taken on Henry's Beach.

It did not go away... I was pregnant.  In that moment our life and who we were were forever changed.

Wild Side

Coincidentally timed with my intention on remembering life and marriage before children.   A new cooking show debuted this past week: "Marcel's Quantum Kitchen"  episode Walk on the Wildside.   The kitchen happened to be catering a fundraising event for the rescue and rehabilitation organization.  The show brought images of the Wildlife Waystation flooding back to John and myself.  I have not had the privilege of being on the ranch in over eight years.

Every Saturday, John and I made the journey from our Playa del Rey condo to the Wildlife Waystation in the Angeles National Forest.  I thrived our volunteer experience there.... it was often hot brutal work (especially for John), and every moment was precious.  As I sit here I can see one of my favorite pictures of a napping Idaho lion from one special afternoon John and I spent adding landscaping to his section.   Very few have the opportunity to experience this amazing volunteerism and I was fortunate enough to share it with my life partner.

The Wildlife Waystation blessed our lives and I miss it every day.

Stacie & John

Marriage before children... it almost seems unreal now.  Perhaps we were really only children ourselves; we have changed so much.

Here, John and I are inside the Merolt barn outside of Aspen the morning of our wedding day. To understand where I am now... I must look back.