NICU

Trusting God in the NICU

Trust. Firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something. I’ve never had to trust a group of people as much as I did when my babies were staying in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). All three of my kids were in the NICU after birth for different reasons and […]

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Faith

Crying with Jesus

Imagine. Two pictures. One is a person alone sitting in a chair, elbows on a table with their hands clasped together praying. Their forehead bowed down touching their praying hands. The other picture has that same person in the same position. Only this time, Jesus is sitting on the other side of the table with […]

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Summer

A Summer of Firsts

This summer was completely different from the last one. Because of the pandemic, we were very limited to what we could do last summer. It was hard because it was potentially going to be the first summer where I felt comfortable doing things with the kids. Of course, we couldn’t do anything last year. That’s […]

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Summer

4 Things We’re Working On This Summer

Our first week of summer is almost over and it’s already looking different from last year. We’re looking forward to being able to more things this year that we couldn’t do last year. A year ago it was our first summer where we could have actually gone out more as a family, but since COVID […]

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Autism

When You’ve Met One Person With Autism

There’s a saying that goes, “when you’ve met one person with autism, then you’ve met one person with autism.” Meaning no two autistic people are alike, everyone has different challenges. That couldn’t be anymore true for my family. All three of kids have autism, but they are all so completely different from each other. Although […]

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Coronavirus

Living in a Pandemic: One Year Later

One year ago my kids came home from school for Spring Break and never went back. The world shut down and we had to stay inside for three months. Our lives turned a complete 180. Our family thrives on routine, so when that was taken away it got hard. We had to do therapy over […]

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2020

A Year of Renewal: Top 6 Moments in 2020

2020 was certainly a different and hard year. There was a pandemic that forced us to stay home, have therapy over telehealth, and school came to a complete halt. It was definitely a hard transition. However, there were many positives that came out of it. Things we rediscovered about ourselves and our family unit. We […]

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Autism

Did I Do Enough For Her?

When I found out my third baby was going to be a girl, I was really excited. I had two boys already and was curious how adding a little girl into the mix was going to be. I thought, and hoped, maybe my girl won’t have as many challenges that my boys had. I had […]

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