You guys, this CuddleCot project has been killing me lately.
Remember when I posted that the donor at Riverton Hospital had fallen through, so we were going to be able to donate our CuddleCot to them? Well the hospital got their wires crossed, and the donation had not actually fallen through. The labor and delivery manager said that...
Read MoreLike most everyone else in the country, I rushed to Target as quickly as I could after the release of the Hearth & Hand Collection. Brandon and I started watching Fixer Upper a while ago, and seriously it was like Joanna Gaines spoke to my soul. Suddenly I understood the kind of home decor I had constantly been striving to perfect. We're still working on it, of course, but this new...
Read MoreIf I could, I would spend all my money on holiday decorations. When the fall and Christmas decorations come out I basically have to stop going to stores altogether, otherwise I'll buy everything. As you probably can tell from previous posts and mine and Brandon's adventures lately, we are really digging fall. All I want is to curl up with that orange blanket up there, throw...
Read MoreOur trip to Vermont and Connecticut has me really feeling fall right now, and I honestly can't wait for the weather to cool off even more! I've been sitting here all morning trying to figure out how we can swing another vacation before the end of the year, and all the places I want to go would require me to buy (at least) one new pair...
Read MoreWe are finally back to real blog posts! As much as I kind of didn't enjoy the Capture Your Grief project, it was really nice to have all the posts scheduled out so I didn't have to worry about writing a ton. We were gone for five days on our trip to New England, then I had to take two days off last week because I was sick, and we took Carter's birthday off. There hasn't been
Read MoreToday is our son’s first birthday.
For a first-time mother, that seems like a strange thing to say. With each passing year, our own age shows that we are getting older. That we have more experiences and more life behind us than the year before. Then we have children, and we have one more number to count our lives...
Read MoreToday is my son’s first birthday. I don’t know how many times I am going to say that today, but I have a feeling it will be a lot.
It blows my mind how quickly this year has passed. I remember thinking that my pregnancy went quickly, but I had no idea that the year following would go even faster. The first three...
Read MoreI posted this last year, two weeks after Carter was born, six years to the day that Brandon and I had officially been together (that last part wasn't intentional). We wanted to share his story again, because it matters to us. He is our son. Today, on his first birthday, we are remembering the day we finally got to meet him, and the day we had to say goodbye...
Read MoreI wrote this letter to Carter a few days before we buried him. My dad read it out loud at the service, and then the letter was left at the cemetery with him. I tried to sum up our 39 weeks together in one simple letter, but there are not enough words to justify how much that time...
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