Usually during Spring Break my mom flies out to Colorado because her Spring Break (she’s a teacher in Texas) is always different than ours. However, since we are homeschooling this year, we decided to pack up and road trip to Texas to the family farm for the week!

Today my firstborn turns SEVEN! Jack is the biggest hype-man. In his world, everything is fun and exciting and an adventure. I wouldn’t have it any other way!

Grief is such a big and strange and complex beast. It’s been 12 years since my daddy went to meet Jesus. Some days it feels like it’s been the longest 12 years and other days it feels like a blink of an eye.

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!

It has been a hot minute since I put pen to paper, so to speak. To be honest, once we got back into the routine of school and the Fall schedule, I became super overwhelmed and really started struggling with anxiety in a way I hadn’t for several years.

Jack has been cooking in the kitchen with me since he could sit up. He has always loved watching me cook and by the time he was able to sit up in the Sit-Me-Up seat, he was playing with the whisk and stacking measuring cups.

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.

Yesterday I shared about our family time in Texas, which was absolutely wonderful! However, the reason we even went to Texas was for a wedding to a very, very special family friend.

Last week we drove to Texas because my boys were going to be the ring bearers in a wedding. I’ll share more on that tomorrow! Today I’m sharing the first part of our trip, which included lots of driving and family time.

It’s weird to have a holiday that you love and despise all at the same time. I love Memorial Day for the way that it let’s people pause, celebrate the beginning of summer and show off some Patriotism.

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

Organization is HARD and it takes intentionality, BUT I guarantee that in the end it is so worth it for everything to have a place and to know where that place is.

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.

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!

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.

I always decorate BIG for Christmas. I also decorate for Christmas at the beginning of November. So by the time January comes, I am usually pretty ready to pack the red and green away and simplify the decor.