Life after loss with autism, preemies and a rainbow baby
We went to see Suessical last weekend. In case you don’t know the storyline it’s about Horton, an elephant with a big imagination, who connects to a Who named JoJo with an imagination the same size. JoJo lives in Whoville, a town the size of a spec on a clover, so no one believes Horton when he tells them […]
I didn’t realize why Sawyer volunteered to go to the grocery store with me until we got to the check out. I was speed-unloading the cart when I looked up to see him building a tower of produce, soup cans and ice cream (in that order because tomatoes make the sturdiest tower base, I’ve heard). […]
Last night at the grocery store the woman three overflowing carts in front of me was having some issues at the register. I have no idea what was going on because I was too far away to hear but I know her groceries were mostly scanned and situated in her cart and she wasn’t leaving lane 15. […]
At the end of middle school a girl Ashlyn went to school with moved out of state. She was Ashlyn’s peer support, a student chosen to help her during the day, but also her friend. When she moved away we were both sad to see her go. The girls soon developed a routine of talking on […]
It turns out, when your oldest is four days away from turning 18, you spend endless hours replaying your pregnancy as if it was yesterday because somehow it was, even when it wasn’t. Last week I was featured in an article aimed at debunking the stereotypes of teen parents portrayed in the media. I was […]
Not long ago one of my favorite bloggers, Steph at Adventures in Babywearing, held a giveaway that reached right through my computer screen. She was giving away gorgeous artwork from the very talented Christina of Heart Box Studio. As soon as I looked through Christina’s shop, I realized she had been touched by grief and […]
