Tulips and Rembrandts

Nothing like a little (or a lot of) stress to reveal that I'm a comfort eater. Following the discovery of a benign but growing tumor in ...

In 2013, in the midst of a deep depression, struggling with anxiety and slogging though daily life with three small kids and a dif...

With all the social media spots to update, I sometimes drop the ball. I'm sorry I have been AWOL here! Those of you who read these upda...

6 years ago this morning, we were saying goodbye to our precious Ava Bean. In the midst of that, Elizabeth had been fighting a respiratory v...

What a full and wonderful weekend. We are thrilled to have all our chicks back in the nest! We are savoring the time to reconnect, even whil...

Birthday Dreams do come true! It took a whole day full of tests and procedures, but Elizabeth managed to get discharged in time to celebrate...

We're tube-free!! After a beautifully clear chest X-ray this morning, CT Surgery came by first thing and slipped it out! Amazing. Ruby ...

Elizabeth's chest tube drained nearly 400ccs overnight and through the morning and her early morning chest X-ray showed that her fluid p...

Tonight were having a party up here on the 6th floor, because IT'S DRAINED!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 *  Of course there are many details I want...

These two pictures bookended a difficult day for E. She was up early for a chest X-ray and a blood draw for labs, and then learned not only ...

Today the adrenaline officially ran out.  * As if He knew it would happen, God filled our day with many sweet graces. I will share more ...

Today was a day of encouragement.  It began with a great night of sleep for everyone! 🙌🏼 when I came up for Dr's Rounds, I brought up ...

This girl. What a rockstar! The two of us had a pretty rotten night. There was some confusion about her regimen, so she got behind on her pa...

What a difference 24 hours makes! When I left Elizabeth last night to tuck in the girls at home, she was stable, but pretty miserable. She w...

She's done!  The surgeon's report is that the surgery was successful. It was more complicated because her heart is "atypical...

We ran through the beginning of the snow to catch our Uber. Now she's all checked in and settled down watching ET for the first time. 💗...

So grateful for some one-on-one time with both Hannah and Ruby yesterday and today. Everyone is a bit on pins and needles, but overall, hear...

Echo ✅ mama got coffee ✅ EKG ✅ a new book & art kit from the pre-op nurse ✅ urine ✅ blood ✅ lunch with daddy ✅ chest X-r...

And we're off for Pre-op Day! We ran into our darling neighbors on our way out of our building and E got to walk toward the subway toget...

Matt took the younger girls to baseball practice so thought I could take advantage of some one on one time with Elizabeth before Granna (my ...