January:
The Ever Evolving a brief introduction to my blog, and how it connects to my sister's blog.
Neglector perhaps my first and greatest lesson of motherhood I learned while making sugar cookies.
February:
Househusband an essay about a husband I wish I could see more.
Quiet Noise a photo essay with Blue Lily photos taken days after my sister's children left our home after six months.
March:
In My Thoughts About Becoming an essay about wanting to be good.
Publishing:Book or Baby will my future hold a new baby or a book . . . or both?
April:
Little Resurrections about Easter.
Year of Lifetime wherein I profess my love for my boys.
May:
Mammorial Day Part 2 my thoughts on weaning The Chief.
This Way a mini-travelogue about a walk The Chief and I took through town. My mother's favorite.
June:
Nothing to Hyde a post about love in Hyde Park.
To Partake in Whole ahh the famous food porn post. Just to be clear, I love the women who called me out on this post and I love the term food porn . . . and I love dumplings.
July:
Took a break.
August:
Compression, Expansion, Illumination a post about the darker days of my sister's recovery. Also, written after I found out I was pregnant again.
Happy Birthday Chup! thanks to you, we aren't homeless!
September:
On Deciding About Bibs we go public (sorta) with our pregnancy.
First the Babies maybe one of my favorite posts ever? Can I say that?
October:
A Heavy Meal on becoming a woman, woman.
The Tent a true spooky story.
November:
Writing on the Wall a tale about homemade graffiti.
More Than Enough a self-reflecting book review.
December:
8:37pm for the nights when putting the baby down comes too soon.
They Try To Pull Me Away, But They Don't Know The Truth a nod to my early blogging style. Ah, the good old days.
Readers, thank you so much for being here with me this year. I am grateful to you for your readership. I've got some new ideas for 2010 blogging, hopefully I will earn the honor of having you around for another one.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Love, love, love
c jane.
*photo by the great Justin Hackworth.
51 Pieces of Opinion:
I've loved reading your blog! It's definitely been a ride worth taking!
Happy New Year! Thanks for the blogging companionship over my morning coffee....I can't start my day without reading your creative thoughts! God bless you & your family (and Nie Nie's!)
A perfect review of a perfect blogging year. Looking forward to next year. Blessings in 2010.
I will definitely be sticking around. Your writing is funny, sad, controversial, inspirational... Keep it coming!
Happy New Year to all of you in the great big extended Clark family.
xo
I loved your Bibs post and the way you related throwing out or keeping the bibs with your fertility. So clever I made other people read it. Happy New Year!
Keep writing and we will come. Your humor and outlook on life, make me laugh and inspire me. Best wishes for a Happy New Year!
Thanks for sharing your talented writing (full of wit and wisdom) and your life with us. Happy New Year to you and your whole family. :)
Praying your 2010 is filled with God's presence & blessings! Thanks for letting me share in your year! HUGS
I've been reading you for over two years now and I don't plan on stopping anytime soon.
Thanks for the fabulous reads.
I don't know how you narrowed it down but you did. Those are all very lovely and I do say, 'First The Babies' is my favorite theory post of all time. I am staying tuned for 2010, especially if you promise more of Cjanes Little Letters like the ones in 'They try to pull me away...', whaddayasay?
i'll only stick around if i get to meet you this year. no just kidding, that won't happen. but for real...come to NC!!
Love, love, love you and your blog. Keep the posts coming. I was recently wondering what I will do when I don't have a CJane and Nie blog to read each day since you both can't keep this up forever...or can you?
Thank you for your blog! I have enjoyed reading, and look forward to more. Your blog has been an inspiration.
love your blog Courtney... Thank you!
I started reading your blog this year. Thanks so much, can't wait for more. Happy New Year to you and yours!!!
I just love you so much!
Loved your tent story especially!
Thank you so much for sharing your questions and insights here on your blog. Here's to a new year filled with love and blessings.
Loved the recap! Great job! Great year!
This is such a great idea to do a year in review! I might just have to use it on my blog!
Happy New Year!!!
Happy New Year to you and yours!!!
I love First the Babies too. You expressed something that I had felt a long time but never felt able to say. But then, you kinda have that talent.
I found you in May after reading your sister's. It's been a pleasure keeping up with you and your family. I LOVE your style of writing and enjoy every minute of reading your blog! Looking forward to more in 2010. Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to the Kendricks. Your blog is something I look forward to reading every single day. It's part of my morning routine. Looking forward to your posts in 2010!
Kath
i enjoy your blog so much! It's always date with my morning Peet's (coffee)and Courtney. You mke me smile, laugh, cry. Whatever you have to tell us about, you do it with such style! I love your style.
Happy New Year to you and your entire family, and I look forward to sharing 2010 with you all.
--Mari
Oh no, thank you...
Happy New Year to you and your family!!
I have been reading your blog for a while...finally...I have to comment! I am in awe of your zest for life and your ability to put it into words that paint a picture for the readers. I admire and appreciate your honesty and willingness to share your life so openly. You are a gift CJane and I am grateful to have the chance to experience it through your blog. I just want to say Thank You and wish you and your family a blessed New Year!
I so love your blog. :)
I'm just not a commenter, until now.
I was looking at your blog while my man walked by.
"Hey, that's (insert your husband's name here)!"
"No it's not. It's Chup."
"Nope. His real name is (insert name here). I edited a few student films with him in it during college." (My hubby was at BYU in film the same time as your hubby, I guess.)
Small world, eh?
Page was also my son's soccer coach this past fall.
And the world is even smaller...
Hi Courtney,
I'm one of those annoying readers who has been benefitting from reading your wonderful writing for several months now, and have never left a comment. I'm sorry. My sister in law, A. Long, actually introduced me to both yours and Nie's blog, and I think I have been changed since. Another reader of yours who is a friend of mine has talked with me at length about how both of us secretly wish we could both be part of the Clark family. You guys are awesome in every way, and provide the best laughs just when we need them. Now what can we do about pulling the Jolly Porter back out of his cave? . . .
Keep up the good work. It's a daily delight for me.
of course i will be visiting you in 2010. you bring many smiles to my face. thank you for sharing your life with us. you are fabulous!
CJane ~ I hope you, Chup and The Chief have an awesome 2010.....and I can't wait to see your new littl one=)
hugs xoxoxoxoxox
cj i wouldn't miss it.
Compression, Expansion, Illumination. I read it again just now and it still overwhelms me. And not for the reasons I thought it would. Your family's ordeal is and was unimaginable. I thought I would find myself with a sigh in my coffee again thinking, "how can they bear it?" "What can I do?" you know??? The mere thought of it is something that paralyzes. But in this essay... you were like the kid who walks again beyond all odds, the guy who beats brain cancer and goes on to win the Tour de France 7 times in a row.
I read blogs like my parents read the paper... and if I had a choice I would nominate that essay as the number one essay of 2009. This essay was the impetus for me to begin reading your blog not only because I read your sisters.
I am gushing I know but I can't help it... that essay... TRANSFORMED my spiritual understanding of trial, strife, fear, sadness, blessing, joy & peace. I have gone back to read that essay more than once to remind myself of the path you found to peace and to find my own.
Blessings to you in 2010 Cjane... Amy
PS. If it is ever in print I will pay you to own a copy of that essay... I love it that much.
I loved "First the Babies" too. Definitely helped put my own life in perspective. My other favorite post was the one about why marriage is so important - of only because I have so had days like that.
Thank you for entertaining us with your blog, Courtney I look forward to a year full of more amazing stories
Saw Chup and The Chief at Ikea yesterday. They were eating Swedish meatballs with toothpicks. As I walked by I said, “Hi, Chief”, but it was actually Chup I was looking at. He said, “I’m Chup”. I laughed and said, “Ooops, I should’ve known that”. Then The Chief giggled and pointed out the window at a blue mini-van. I asked Chup where you were? He said, “Luminaries”.
I need to stop eating pistachios while blog surfing just before bed.
Sorry about that…I mean dreaming about your husband.
Thanks for sharing your adventure.
c jane,
I can't thank you enough for your introspective and inspiring look at life. So often I find myself realizing that you've put into words thoughts that I had never been able to express for myself. It's been a pleasure to read your life essays and I look forward to many more. Thank you, dear friend.
I can't imagine not being here with you again throughout 2010. It has been a gift to follow your life journey this past year and I look forward to reading the newborn-stage you are about to enter (I have #9 due in April and I know that it will be another foggy 6 weeks...but I'm sure you will make me smile/laugh/sigh through it).
You are swell :)
That is a great photo cjane. total babe. Happidy NEW YEAR!
I read them all. When my day allowed spurts of blog reading, I read these posts. And I loved them. You write quite well.
Love your blog... JUST LOVE IT.
Happy New Year C. Jane; you'll be blogging and I'll be reading.
Those were my favorites also. I've been wishing I could write like you, even though I know it is wrong to covet. This morning I have been thinking that maybe it's okay for me to be an appreciator instead of a writer. I always get you. And so I think my part is something also. A small part, but still something. I anticipate many nourishing posts in 2010. Thank you!
it's amazing how i remember all the posts you mentioned and how some of them have really been YEAR AGO? time. flies. help!
Couldn't face 2010 without you!!! Best wishes to you and your lovely family xx
What a great idea...and I cannot even pick my favorite, they are all so good.
Happy New Year Courtney! Blessings to you and yours this year-
I love reading your blog and I appreciate the time you put into it. Thanks for the good reads and have a very happy new year!
I love your blog and loved this idea...so I stole it and did the same thing on my blog, though I must admit I am decidely less talented a writer. It was still fun to pull out my favorite posts of 2009. Thanks for your wit and wisdom, C-Jane! Keep it up!!
Love it. I feel as if I can relate because I am a 'C-Jane' too.
love the blog, and look forward to reading you every day! keep 'em coming girlfriend
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