Don’t Waste It

For the last four years, my kids have been attending golf camps in South Austin.  First, we started with just one swinging a club and last summer we had three on the greens.  Clare will join them next summer.  I have raved about this experience before, HERE and HERE. My mom mentioned that she noticed…

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What a month

Scott and I sat down to chat this evening for the first time in several days – you know, a meaningful conversation! – and we both commented on what a really junky month February has been.  As fate would have it, two more boys got fevers this weekend and we finally threw in the towel. …

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Top Ten: National NICU Nurses’ Day!

Not making that up.  Promise.  Today is in fact National Neonatal Nurses Day. Strike up the band, plug in the margarita machine and raise an ID badge to these AMAZING people.  There are many things I want to forget about our NICU stay, but our nurses are some of the few things I will always…

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Hills and Valleys

Those three words pretty much sum up life for us the past year.  It’s been a series of really big hills and extraordinarily low valleys.  With each passing month, I’m noticing the valleys aren’t as low and it’s a shorter distance to those hills.  But, living through those valleys has been the toughest journey of…

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Forecast

Forecasts are a funny thing, aren’t they?  Weatherman predicts rain and we grab our umbrellas.  Sports announcers predict the Aggies will win and we get our hopes up (maybe).  Whatever the forecast, we prepare ourselves for the probable outcome. This weekend, I went to Mass for the first time since before Luke was born.  If…

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