I love the mommy world. We are good at building each other up. We share memes about deciding between coffee or wine, blog about all that the world expects of us and occasionally complain that our husbands have it easier. We know life is hard so we join mommy groups on how to have great…
Choosing Joy
5 Reasons Why Moms Should Always Ask for Help
Of all the valuable lessons I have learned in the last 5 years of motherhood, learning to ask for help has been the most valuable…and for my husband, accepting it. It all began when I had a high risk pregnancy with my first son in Chicago. My morning sickness became so severe, I had to…
Would I Choose This Life?
Miles pondering the meaning of life, 18 months. When Bryce and I were engaged, he lived in Chicago and I lived in Arizona. It was long distance for 5 months as I planned the wedding and we relied on phone calls to keep in touch. He had just started his first big boy…
Paying Hope Forward- A Letter To Our Doc
We had a very interesting visit with our Perinatologist last week. We really like her and she is the same doctor that gave us Miles’s Spina Bifida diagnosis. This conversation was obviously different and we mostly talked about how shocking it is that it’s all happening a second time. She said our chances…