This weekend we celebrated my sweet husband’s 40th birthday with a surprise “May the Fourties Be With You” Party!

On the last Tuesday of every month I’ll be doing Talk About It Tuesday. It’s a little food, a little family, a little what we’re wearing, a little what we’re doing, a little what we’re watching and a little bit of everything else all in one post.

Never in my entire life did I think I would voluntarily purchase caterpillars to watch them grow into butterflies for my children, but alas I did.

On the last Tuesday of every month I’ll be doing Talk About It Tuesday. It’s a little food, a little family, a little what we’re wearing, a little what we’re doing, a little what we’re watching and a little bit of everything else all in one post.

Today is all about Jack because today, he turns SIX! The saying, “The days are long, but the years are short,” is beyond true. So today I’m going to share six of my favorite things about Jack!

On the last Tuesday of every month I’ll be doing Talk About It Tuesday. It’s a little food, a little family, a little what we’re wearing, a little what we’re doing, a little what we’re watching and a little bit of everything else all in one post.

In Part 3, we left off with Jack heading back to surgery. His surgery took about 5.5 hours. When the surgeon came out to talk to us, he told us a couple of things…

Jack had been diagnosed with a Right Aortic Arch with Complete Vascular Ring and Left Subclavian Artery. That’s a whole lot of words to basically say that his Aorta was facing the wrong way and had created a ring, encapsulating his trachea and esophagus, essentially restricting airflow.

Welcome to Part 2 of our CHD Journey! In Part 1, we left off with a follow up appointment with Pulmonology in October, when his symptoms typically presented themselves each year. Over the warm summer months, his wheezy breathing symptoms had cleared up, his O2 was in normal range and he appeared to be a healthy little boy.

Since today is Valentine’s Day, I thought I would take a break from regular content to share about us! I saw this Q&A on Facebook and thought it would be super fun to turn it into a blog post in honor of the day of love!

Did you know that approximately 1 in 100 babies are born with a Congenital Heart Defect? My Jack is in 1 in 100. Despite amazing advances in maternal-fetal medicine, there are still babies born everyday with undiagnosed congenital heart defects. That’s our story.

One of my favorite Christmas traditions is making Christmas Crack for neighbors, the UPS man and the Post Office. We’ve had lots of neighbors come and go over

Military service runs deep in our family, on both sides.

One of my FAVORITE traditions is one that I started when Jack was around 2 years old... 25 days of Christmas Books!