Life after loss with autism, preemies and a rainbow baby
My husband is not a jewelry wearer and he’s not a lover of framed quotes. I’ve looked for something meaningful to get for him for years. I wanted to find something he can carry with him every day that is a reminder of Hadley. Something more subtle than a necklace with her name on it […]
After the triplets were born, I spent every single day in the NICU. On the weekends Mark would join me and we would stare into their little isolettes, willing them to eat and grow and not make a single monitor ding with that awful sound that is forever embedded in my brain. One Saturday in […]
About a month or so after we got married, Mark and I went out to dinner with friends who were married a few years before us. When dinner was over we headed to the car hand in hand and I asked Mark if he had noticed that they never held hands. I never want that […]
I might as well give you the two week warning that my baby will be four very soon. I’ve been watching him drift off to sleep and picking him up too much and looking at old photos and trying to get out the sentence “we should have one mo…” before my husband interrupts with “you. […]
Mindless reality television paired with a glass of wine is my favorite way to wind down from the day because what better way to forget your own Crazy than to watch someone else’s? So when this new show “Ready for Love” came out I settled in with my wine and twitter, expecting to fill the […]
When I was young I had this vision of my future self, married with kids. In my spectacularly clueless vision I was dressed in one of those flowy white sundresses and running through a field (tall, blowing grass of course) with a long line of blonde children and a gorgeous husband. No one was fighting […]
I have always loved words. I have a quote addiction that is fairly noticeable to anyone who follows me on Pinterest. But even before Pinterest I was a quote junkie. With stars in my eyes, I would send my soon-to-be husband quotes at the end of our emails and even if he didn’t share my […]
I found this list of instructions supposedly taken from a 1950’s high school home economics textbook, teaching girls how to prepare for married life and thought I would see how I compare, using the past week as an example. I’m pretty sure I’m as 1950’s as you can get… 1. Have dinner ready: Plan ahead, […]
My husband has an insane amount of patience. He always has. When we met, I thought this an amazing quality. What a great husband and father he would be, I told my starry-eyed self. I was right. Now that he is a dad he has patience abound. He comes home from work, happy to let […]
I was a single mom for eight years. Spending most of my twenties dreaming of the perfect husband, my mind created this magical guy who would swoop in and complete my days. I knew exactly what I wanted… someone who loves me to pieces and holds me together when those pieces fall someone who is […]
