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Mama In The Now

Boy Mom Life With Humor and Hygge

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How to find the best pediatric specialist for your child - sound advice from a medical mom. When you are facing a new diagnosis for your child, the search is on for the best doctor - these steps will get you to the the perfect physician. Click to read!

How to Find the Best Pediatric Specialist for Your Child

Another Test, Another "-Ologist" I look at my watch, again. It has been seven minutes since he left the exam room to look at my baby’s blood work results. Seven minutes is a “blink of an eye” when I’m laying in bed after the alarm goes off. But when you are waiting to hear the results from your View Post

Filed Under: Health, Heart, Narcolepsy, Special Needs

Life lessons to be learned from a Make-A-Wish trip. Going on the trip was a parenting win, for so many surprising reasons. Medical moms and special needs moms will agree. Click to read everything that happened.

Life Lessons to be Learned From a Make-A-Wish Trip

"We didn’t want to simply accept the Make-A-Wish gesture, go on our trip and chalk it up as a great summer." The kids were about to learn life lessons. This post is sponsored by Basic Invite. I received customized cards and other compensation in return for my honest opinion and review.  His View Post

Filed Under: Heart, Parenting, Special Needs

A mother's sweet thoughts to her Make a Wish kid. A must read for every special needs mom.

A Letter to My Make-A-Wish Kid

Dear Son, I am staring at you, taking in the image that is right in front of me. I wish so badly to permanently freeze time. I never want to forget THIS moment - none of it. If only that was possible. As the years pass the image may fade from my memory, but my heart will always remember how I View Post

Filed Under: Heart, Motherhood, Our Life

Know and share the risk factors for heart disease in women.

Know and Share the Risk Factors for Heart Disease in Women

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of The Heart Truth® for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. We are moms, we are wives, partners, sisters and daughters - and we are caregivers. We care deeply, some times we care so much about others that we forget to care about ourselves. I belong View Post

Filed Under: Health, Heart, Motherhood, Reviews

Polymer clay Danish Christmas heart ornament. This beautiful decoration is kid-friendly and fun for kids of all ages to make. These hearts make wonderful presents too.

Polymer Clay Danish Christmas Heart Ornament

The image of a Danish Christmas heart takes me right back to my childhood filled with Danish elves and gnomes and Christmas trees with real burning candles dangling precariously on the branches. Dancing around the Christmas tree on Christmas eve, while we singing psalms in each our own off-key tune View Post

Filed Under: Creative, Heart, Hygge, Winter Tagged With: Christmas, Crafts, Danish, DIY, Kids, Pin THIS!

Staying authentic when parenting gets real. When your child with serious medical conditions asks the toughest questions, you have to stay authentic, be real and honest. One mom offers you the encouragement you will need! Special needs moms, medical moms and heart moms unite!

Staying Authentic When Parenting Gets REAL!

Have you ever had to be so REAL with your child that it hurt? - Like you were punched in the gut?! Well, today I managed to stay authentic when parenting got real, it was down-right raw! It was a normal afternoon after school pickup. The kids’ mouths didn’t stand still for a minute. They were View Post

Filed Under: Heart, Our Life, Parenting, Special Needs Tagged With: family, Happiness, health, Heart, live in the now, Motherhood, Parenting Shortcut, special needs

10 Things Other Parents Need to Know About Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS). Real encouragement from a heart mom.

10 Things Other Parents Need to Know About Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS)

I met Caelen's mom several years ago before she moved to Florida. We connected in a Facebook group for heart moms, because that's what heart moms do - they connect, instantly. Caelen was born with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome ("HLHS"), which means that the left side of his heart is severely View Post

Filed Under: Health, Heart, Parenting, Special Needs Tagged With: 10 Things Other Parents Need to Know, germs, health, Heart, Kids, special needs

An Open Letter to “the Flu!”

An Open Letter to "the Flu!" Dear Influenza A, B and whatever other alphabet-soup-combinations there are! I have feared you for years! - actually loathed your mere existence. Every single year you keep scientists on their toes. Your constant morphing and mutating leaves the vaccines full of View Post

Filed Under: Health, Heart, Our Life Tagged With: family, health, Heart, Letter, special needs

To the Staff Treating my Medically-Complex Child

To the Staff Treating my Medically-Complex Child

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To say that the heart-mom community is a "village of support" is a gross understatement. We are a group of kindred hearts, a force to be reckoned with and a united front when it comes to welcoming new members and teaching newbie heart moms the ropes. We seek the truth and demand untampered View Post

Filed Under: Health, Heart, Motherhood, Special Needs Tagged With: Caregiver, health, Heart, Letter, Motherhood, special needs

He Showed Me The Future

HE Showed Me The Future!

Some stories happen and instantly beg to be written, others need to mature and then one day they are ready to be presented to the world. I have held this story in my heart for six years, it has pulled me through the most terrifying times of my life. This account was my "snuggle buddy", "security View Post

Filed Under: Heart, Motherhood, Our Life, Special Needs Tagged With: family, health, Heart, live in the now, Motherhood, special needs

To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate! Consider This First!

To Vaccinate, or Not to Vaccinate?! Consider This First!

The topic of "vaccinations" has been weighing heavy on my mind for a while. I felt that my silence was not a good representation of my (strong) feelings, when out of the blue, a dear friend wrote this piece and asked if it was appropriate for my blog. Yes - and 110% YES! I am proud to feature this View Post

Filed Under: Health, Heart, Parenting, Special Needs Tagged With: germs, health, Heart, special needs

Special needs children need friends too. Medical moms have a way of finding their support system and friends. But how and where do the children with medical conditions find their friends? These are tips from a medical mom!

Special Needs Children Need Friends Too!

I spend a lot of time writing about motherhood in an effort to empower and support my fellow moms. But somewhere along the way, the child with medical conditions and special needs is lost! Lost in the system, lost in the community, on the playground – just plain LOST – if he doesn't have friends and View Post

Filed Under: Heart, Parenting, Relationships, Special Needs Tagged With: Caregiver, health, Heart, review, special needs

The one mom friend every mom needs in her life. No one should go through motherhood without a friend like this - we all need this kind of love and encouragement. Be one to have one. Click to read.

The One Mom Friend Every Mom Needs In Her Life

You just took a call from your child’s doctor. It wasn’t his staff calling with the results, it was the doctor himself - which we all know only means that the test came back positive for (fill in the blanks). You hang up the phone, maybe you remembered to wish him a “good day”, or not - regardless View Post

Filed Under: Heart, Motherhood, Relationships, Special Needs Tagged With: Caregiver, Happiness, health, Heart, Motherhood, special needs

Don’t Miss This: “Letter to the Mom…”

They told me to write from the heart, so I did. They also said to “write what you know” - I did that too. After blogging for a year, freelance writing for longer and generally enjoying word-smithing for as long as I can remember, I feel like things are falling into place. Slowly the pieces to the View Post

Filed Under: Heart, Motherhood, Special Needs Tagged With: Caregiver, Featured Articles, health, Heart, Letter, live in the now, Motherhood, special needs

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