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  • Hurry Up and Wait

    Layla is 13 days old and I’m writing this as we sit in her room at the Children’s Mercy PICU. There are what looks like a thousand wires and tubes connecting machines to each other and to her. Her heart and lungs are currently being supported by ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation), which she’s been relying…

  • Calm Before the Storm

    May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. –Nelson Mandela My countdown app says “4” days till Layla. And unless she makes an early appearance on her own, we are on the books at Children’s Mercy to get labor started this Monday morning, November 2nd. I spent my last day of work in the…

  • Sisters with Special Hearts

    It’s been over three years since I wrote a blog post, but we thought it was time for me to bust this thing back out to help keep family and friends up-to-date with our upcoming adventure. Not only is Layla’s arrival coming up quickly, but we learned recently it’s going to be an even wilder…

  • Hodge Podge

    – Halloween was a success! I was going to do a whole blog post on it but haven’t had the time…maybe that will come later. Skyler’s persistence to be Goofy worked out despite the lack of readily available costumes. It just forced this mama to get creative, and who doesn’t love going to the craft…

  • Testing, Testing 1, 2, 3

    That’s what Skyler does to me on a daily basis. It seems amplified since having spent almost 24-7 together the last 12 days. I made it back to work yesterday, which was actually a much needed break for me, but then today had childcare fall through and had to stay home with her. Vacation was…

  • It’s About Time!

    I’m getting caught up (again), picture style! Who wants to read anyway?

  • Someday…

    …I will blog again. Until then, I’ll keep getting more and more behind. This Spring has been full of great things that have yet to be written, and there is more to come this summer. I don’t know how I’ll ever get caught up!

  • Christmas 2009

    We had a wonderful, busy Christmas! I’ll keep the words short and let the pictures do the talking, but Skyler had a blast! We did our own Christmas Eve together at home, then had Christmas morning together, then headed to Belton for Ronnie’s family Christmas, then back across town to my parents’ for our Christmas.…

  • Good Things

    Friday’s text message conversation with my friend: Me: I am suspicious… Her: Of what? Me: Things! Her: Um….good things or bad things? What happened? I noticed Thursday that our guest bedroom had been cleaned up, along with the rest of the house. Ronnie comes home during the day and cleans a lot, but only typically…

  • Last Hoorah

    Tonight is my last night in my twenties. Instead of celebrating the last day of my youth like a rockstar, I’m sitting at my computer blogging while my two-year-old does her best nudist impression, and I’m making a grocery list to get ingredients for the avocado soup I’m making for lunch tomorrow. Whew! The only…