I’m sitting here in Provo airport waiting to board my flight home. It’s only 12pm now, but I have about 6 hours of travel ahead of me, and a time change, so I’m not looking to be home before 7pm. I’m exhausted and emotionally depleted, but in the best way possible I think. I have […]
Utah has been amazing so far. It’s been everything that I needed, and pushing myself to come here was the right choice. If you don’t know, on Thursday morning, I flew into Salt Lake City for a birth mom retreat. It’s the first one I’ve been to with this organization, and I can honestly say
I’m still struggling to find my footing in this new reality I find myself in. Ya know, the one where I lost arguably my biggest and most consistent support system out of literally nowhere and completely all of a sudden. It’s been really challenging thinking about the next. The forward. I very much feel stuck
It isn’t perfect, but it’s something Read More »
Well hello there! If you haven’t heard from me in about a week, that’s because I have had basically zero internet or cell service! We (mostly) disconnected, and hung out on the big blue sea for the past 7 days. That’s right, yesterday morning we disembarked from our very first ever cruise! We did a
DISNEY WORLD!!!!!! Well, kind of. Let’s back up. 24 hours ago, we woke up and drove the 2 hour drive to the airport. We got the kids up at 4:30am to leave at 5. They thought we were going to a doctor appointment, a lot of their doctors are 2 hours away and we frequently
Earlier this morning, I had therapy. Yes, it’s Saturday. Yes, that’s quite unusual, and yes, I’m very glad that it happened. We got home from our crazy trip to the NIH late last night after a chaotic and intense 12 hour travel day. Nothing about it was easy or smooth, but we made it, got
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This entire week has been, if nothing else, a truly unforgettable week. For about a hundred different reasons. While I’m not yet ready to recap it completely, today is our last full day here. It consists of a good bit more testing, labs, EMGSs and EKGs. And who knows what else. Yesterday was hard. Every
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Life is just interesting beyond measure sometimes. Like, traveling to the NIH for myself and my 3 kids to be tested, researched, and hopefully diagnosed. Some words I never thought would ever come out of mouth, yet, here we are. Yesterday was our travel day, and oooh what a shit show it was. We took
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Procrastination has a way of sneaking up on you. You might think you’re good, have plenty of time, ahead of the game…and then you very quickly realize just how wrong you were. I’m flying with all 3 of my kids in 37 hours. So, a day and a half. I only just began packing. Why?
Slowly but surely, we get there. Read More »
We are officially one week away from our big important trip to the NIH. That pretty much means that now is the time to stop procrastinating, and put it into focus. I have to pack. And prepare. Mentally and physically. I’ve never flown with 3 kids before. Actually, I’ve only ever flown with one kid
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