<- How sweet is this? Melted my heart. Thank you, sweet friends.I'm in the parent's lounge while my Scarlette has another x-ray. She's such a little fighter. She just started a new blood pressure medicine and we're praying that will be the key to getting her stable. While I wait, … [Read more...] about Humor From The NICU | INCONCEIVABLE!
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Current Status
I try to post small Scarlette updates via twitter/facebook during the day until I have time to update her page. Everytime I log in, I look at the "current status" space and feel at a loss for words to type. What do I say if I'm honest? That I'm terrified we might be losing our … [Read more...] about Current Status
Video: Scarlette opens her eyes
I write a lot in a spiral notebook while I sit in Scarlette's room during the day and then I type it up while I sit and pump at three in the morning. I'm pretty sure this is apparent in my atrocious grammatical and spelling errors lately. In my defense, I did mention that I'm typing … [Read more...] about Video: Scarlette opens her eyes
Our greatest thanksgiving (thank you)
Almost every single bit of my thanksgiving this year is that tiny, beautiful, little girl; my Scarlette. I'm thankful for NICU nurses who snap pictures of her for me when she gets a bath, so that I can see her face without all her tubes and lines. I'm thankful for a husband who is the … [Read more...] about Our greatest thanksgiving (thank you)
Faith and my daughter
I've written often here about how faith through infertility and then about faith through pregnancy. I've wondered lately how to write about faith and this situation, my daughter's precarious condition. The truth is, this is hard. I know for the first time what it feels like to pray … [Read more...] about Faith and my daughter
Jeff and Scarlette: Hands
Those tiny hands, they look exactly like his. I've always loved Jeff's hands, swift and able on the guitar, soft and gentle on the small of my back, strong and sure as they hold me while I weep. Hands that held my hair and stroked my face in the midst of my greatest pain and anguish. Hands … [Read more...] about Jeff and Scarlette: Hands
