I get so eager to expand on my sense of self. As a child, I always tried being other people I thought were “cool” or “popular.” I always thought other people felt like I wasn’t enough, which left me internally feeling that towards myself. But as I’ve gotten older, as I sit here as a woman embracing her 30’s full… Continue reading Reflecting
I think I speak for everyone when I say that I have no idea where the days have gone. Everything seems to blur together anymore. We are already halfway through the third month of the year and almost three months after I turned 30. I went out with a friend shortly after my birthday, and she said to me that… Continue reading Life Update
Embracing 30 I turned the big 3-0 almost 2 weeks ago. A milestone. A new chapter. A new decade. A chance to reflect on my life thus far and make any changes necessary to get to where I want to be. What’s nice about my birthday being at the end of December is that New Year’s is just around the… Continue reading 30
It’s been a while since I sat down and wrote on here. I decided to just make the time and space for it. I have no real direction on where this is going to go or be about, but here we go anyway. All in all, life has been pretty good. Ian recently had his routine follow up MRI and… Continue reading No Direction
With father’s day weekend, I thought it would be nice to share a post about my hubby. AKA the father of my children. I know if there is one thing I do right in my life, it was who I chose to be the father of my kids. From day one, Mike has always shown up for our kids. Our… Continue reading To the Father of My Children
It’s hard to believe that in less than 24 hours, I’ll be a mother to a 14-year-old. It feels like just yesterday she was my baby girl in diapers, pinks, bows, and dresses. But today, she’s a young woman finding her place in this world. I’ve had more people than I can even remember tell me to “just wait” for… Continue reading One in a Million
Ian’s next MRI is on May 1st. And this time around has had my nerves in a bunch. The last couple MRI’s we have had, while they have been stable, there was notice of Ian’s ventricles increasing in size. When this happens, this is a sign of hydrocephalus, and it was one of the things that landed us in the… Continue reading The Days Before Scan Day
“You are a crayon in a drawer full of pencils; Life is far more brighter with you in it.” Something I don’t talk about too often is the grief I feel when I think about the child Ian was before his brain injury and the child he is now, after the brain injury. I don’t like to talk about it… Continue reading Perfectly Imperfect
I got on Facebook this morning, and one of the things I like to check on it each day are the memories. I enjoy seeing what happened on this day in years past. I enjoy looking at old pictures and events that may have happened in my life. One of today’s memories was from 12 years ago. And it simply… Continue reading Happy Days
We’ve all the heard the expression “woke up on the wrong side of the bed.” And we’ve all been there, right? We wake up a little cranky, for no particular reason. To be completely honest, I’m guilty of this happening to me quite frequently. For me, I think it’s more so I don’t sleep well at night. I never really… Continue reading Gratitude