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Letter to Jonah – Homestretch

Dear Jonah, I am sitting here at 11:00pm on a “school night”, unable to sleep because of my pregnancy insomnia, various aches and pains - and simply because I have too much on my mind. But it’s OK - everything is as it should be at this point. We, you and I, are 33 weeks into our mother-son View Post

Filed Under: Baby (0-1 years), Motherhood, Our Life, Pregnancy Tagged With: cute, family, Happiness, health, live in the now, Pregnancy

Birthday Letter to Jordan

Happy 5th birthday Jordan! Thank you for the best, the hardest, the happiest, the saddest, the toughest and the most incredible five years of my life. You show me every day that life is not just black or white - it is colored with every shade of the rainbow. When you feel, you feel deeply and View Post

Filed Under: Our Life, Toddler (2-5 years) Tagged With: brothers, cute, family, Happiness, health, Heart, live in the now

Have a Heart – Get an Ultrasound

I am sitting here on “ultrasound eve”, aka the night before my next scan. I always have a certain level of anxiety and excitement prior to these appointments. So far everything has checked out fine with this pregnancy, but it is not something I take for granted - EVER. This little life growing and View Post

Filed Under: Health, Heart, Motherhood, Pregnancy Tagged With: Happiness, health, Heart, live in the now, Pregnancy, special needs

Letter to my Unborn Son

Dearest baby residing in my womb, Thank you for affording me the honor of being your mom. From the morning when the first home pregnancy test flashed two lines I felt a tremendous responsibility towards you. Starting that very moment I went from being mother of three to mother of four. Regardless View Post

Filed Under: Baby (0-1 years), Our Life, Pregnancy Tagged With: family, health, Heart, live in the now

Lice Lice Baby

Lice Lice Baby

What makes your scalp itch worse - the thought of little critters roaming around searching for a mate in your hair,or remembering the burning sensation of getting your hair permed in the late 80’s when Vanilla Ice’s hit song “Lice Lice Baby” was all the rage?! I am currently pregnant in my View Post

Filed Under: Health, Our Life, Parenting Tagged With: family, health, live in the now

Live in the Now

“Be where you are!” were some of the first words spoken to me by the Chaplain at a local hospital.  Father Mike introduced himself as I stood over our infant son Jordan laying in a baby warmer dressed in only a diaper and a hat knitted by a kind-hearted hospital volunteer. Jordan and I had just View Post

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

Breastfeeding Jordan – Our Baby with a Big Heart

2008 was a tumultuous year for many. The stock market and real estate market tumbled. Aggregating all the financial losses sustained worldwide would never come close to the great loss our family suffered. We lost my granddad and dad unexpectedly within 6 weeks of each other. However, we saw light at View Post

Filed Under: Breastfeeding, Heart, Our Life, Special Needs Tagged With: Breastfeeding, health, Heart

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