I Need a Minute

We are eight months in living a life with 3 children ages 4 and under. I write this coming off of a week and a half of all 3 being sick at once. They’ve been sick a lot this fall/winter, but it’s been in shifts. This time all 3 had colds at the same time.…

Where do I begin, well I got pregnant again in October of 2021. A second pregnancy during the ongoing global pandemic. Just when I thought the anxiety and fear of a crazy virus would hold us back from having another. Oops, we did it again! The winter of 2021 felt long. Christmas weekend was spent…

When the waves crashed down on me, my breath escaped me. Desperate, I gasped and reached for the surface. For much of my life, I had coasted through unscathed.I worked hard. I enjoyed my time. I fell in love. I got married. Our love overflowed and created endless possibilities.  First pregnancy. Tears of joy. Ready…

The start of 2021 was spent calming ourselves down from when Dad had Covid. The raw emotion I felt during that time still resurfaces from time to time. He is fully recovered at this point. It did take him quite a few months to regain energy etc. It’s hard to believe that all happened less…

My Mom is the most self-less, generous person in my life. She is a Mother of five children, the Grandmother of 13, and a Mother figure to countless others. Now that I am a Mother, I finally understand a lot of what she has been talking about over the years. She told me I would…