The second full day of vacation was so much fun! We left Stowe relatively early, and started to make our way down to Connecticut. Before we left for the trip, Brandon had found an article about the best drives to take to see fall foliage in New England. He worked his magic and pieced our drive together, making it so we could take three of the seven suggested routes! We...
Read MoreOur quick trip to New England was so much fun! We flew in to Burlington, Vermont and headed straight to Stowe, where we stayed at the Golden Eagle Resort. We stopped at the Ben & Jerry's factory on our way to Stowe to take a tour and sample some ice cream, then got dinner before going to bed. It got dark around 6:30, so by 8:30 (still only 6:30 at home...
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 MoreIn some ways, the end of this project, the end of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and Carter's first birthday feel like the end of a chapter. You know that Brandon and I will never forget Carter, but with each passing day, it gets easier to live with the pain, and I know that after his birthday, life will still continue to move forward...
Read MoreI wanted to use this prompt to reflect on this project. It was not as easy as I thought it would be. Mostly, there were a lot of days where I didn't want to be sad, days that I didn't want to wallow in my grief and dig deep to feel things I wasn't quite up to feeling that day. I wrote a lot of these posts on the same day, then scheduled them out accordingly. It probably took me...
Read MoreMy previous tribe circle posts have been about the children we've had and the medical staff we love. As we come to the end of the Capture Your Grief project, I want to devote this last tribe circle post to our children that have yet to come to us...
Read MoreA year ago yesterday, our whole world flipped upside down. A year ago today, we were at home, waking up early to no newborn crying. Wandering around the house, wondering the heck we were even doing with out lives. Spending too much time holding each other, with too many salt streaks on our faces...
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 MoreThis prompt is so fitting for today.
If you want to know what I'm passionate about, read every single blog post for the last twenty months.
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