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Letters to Charlotte: 1 Month
Dear Charlotte, This is the first of 24 letters I will write you each month up to your second birthday. Yes, you will have to endure taking pictures with these silly stickers for that long. Sorry. And I know each time I write to you, I will want to start with, I can’t believe you are…
Do You Wear Sparkly Green Earrings?
Last Saturday, Lisa, Charlotte and I had so much fun meeting Melanie Shankle, aka Big Mama, and her daughter Caroline at a book signing for Melanie’s new book, Sparkly Green Earrings. If you don’t know who Melanie is, you MUST start following her blog TODAY. She usually posts 5 days a week and never fails…
Blessed
I realized as I opened a new page to blog tonight that this is my 300th post, and that probably warrants a little effort on my part to come up with something thoughtful. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to write about, only that I feel an intense need to write about my babies. And those babies…
Feeding Tube Awareness Week 2013
Yesterday kicked off this year’s Feeding Tube Awareness week. As with just about everything in my life right now, I’m about a day behind. But even with all the craziness in our world right now, I really want to participate and spread awareness as much as I can this week. Yesterday, I was supposed to:…
Divide and Conquer
Yesterday was my first day back to “real life”. For two weeks my mom had been taking and picking Grayson up from school, I hadn’t been driving, and really all I had to focus on was recovering from childbirth and taking care of Charlotte. But yesterday, I was set to do it by myself. I…
Charlotte's Birth Story
I’m making myself sit down and write this before I forget too many details, although all I want to do right now is fall asleep with this little mouse on my chest. Charlotte’s birth story has little to do with the physical aspect of how she was born, although that went extrememly well and was…
Wordless Wednesday: Newborn Sweetness
Thanks to my super talented lil sis, Rebecca for taking the pictures. I love them!
The Monday Snapshot: Big Boy Swing
I had been searching for quite a while for a special needs swing for Grayson, in anticipation of him reaching 25 pounds and finally outgrowing the infant swing (he’s 26 now and the swing was creeakking and moving slower and slower every time he was in it). Swinging definitely soothes him, so it was…
5 Days
My sweet Charlotte is 5 days old today. I promise I will write her birth story soon, when I get the chance between feedings, laundry, diapers, and all the emotions that come with having a 5 day old. Oh the emotions. There are the typical weepy, overwhelmed, exhausted feelings- sure, I expected those. But there…