Originally posted September 21st, 2017 Happy Birthday Joe!!! I’ve always wanted to post this picture because to me there is no more beautiful and truer symbol of Love and this is one of my favorite pictures.. If you look really close you can see a baby...
Read MoreOriginally posted on April 5th, 2017 Happy 19th Wedding Anniversary to Joe! ( A day late, it was yesterday) Since I’m not sure what you are supposed to give for 19, and I still want to be a writer when I grow up, I thought I’d...
Read MoreOriginally posted November 14th, 2016 Today Andrew turns 10. I usually don’t post on birthday’s because we all get older, but I wanted to share this story. The day Andrew was born and we were getting ready for our third c-section in 3 years, the NICU nurses...
Read MoreWhen Joe asked me to write a Christmas letter this year, I simply rolled my eyes. Because 2014 was one of the hardest, most difficult years of our lives. I didn’t think a smiling Christmas card with all of us with perfect hair and clothes...
Read MoreWhen I went to Va Tech I was truly blessed. I had the privilege of becoming a Hokie and meeting an incredible man and living for four years under the peaceful orange and maroon skies. Besides all of those wonderful blessings, I got to become...
Read MoreThe one thing we insisted on after Christopher died was silence. When we went shopping for his burial plot the sales people treated us like we were picking out a car. The showed us the “volkswagon” plots as they called it, but we ultimately decided...
Read MoreBeneath the historic dome at Johns Hopkins stands a 10 ½ foot marble statue of Jesus. It has sat there since 1896 and has served as a symbol of hope and strength for people. Patients go and sit at the feet...
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Pompeii Purple. It has served me well, we have been through a lot together. The most wonderful thing when you have are going to have a baby and have a planned C-section is the opportunity to have one’s leg’s shaved and toes polished. It is the...
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Ten years ago today, we had hope. We had everything. We were going to survive. We had put our baby through tortuous days of chemotherapy. We had put poison (chemotherapy) into Christopher’s little body ...
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