Parenting

Life Taken For Granted

Week 16 arrived out of nowhere.  As I drove to my appointment yesterday, I had a lot of time to ponder life and all that it holds for us right now.  Usually Thomn and I...

Becoming A Doctor

Five years ago, Thomn and I were finalizing plans to go to Palm Springs for the weekend with a drive to Vegas for the week following our trip to California. While we were there in...

A Lonely Heart

“I miss Daddy.”  The small voice of my oldest tiny human echoed through the sleepless air in my bedroom last night and it tugged so profoundly on my lonely heart.  It is not often that...

Perspective.

If there is one word that I have learned to really embrace and live by as a parent, it is perspective. Being a SAHM isn’t easy.  Period.  This is a hard job that requires endurance,...

A Never-ending Fear

Today was not our typical kind of Sunday as we spent the better part of the afternoon and early evening in the Emergency Room with T4.  We had had a great morning, the kids made...

Goodbye For Now

How do you begin to explain death to a two-year-old?  Each and every day our two-year-old experiences such a wide swing of emotions from joy and pure elation to sadness and anger, but the thing...

Purely Postpartum

“That’s my sister.  She’s completely bald in front”.  Jo March says this to Laurie, when she sees her sister Meg dancing at a party. This book/movie line from Little Women has been playing over and...