Last week tiny P had a hard week. She was struggling with fluid gain, and on Tuesday she stopped going potty after her diuretic, where she usually goes a LOT. She stopped eating, all she wanted to do was sleep, and by Thursday she was huge with built up fluid. She gained almost five extra…

You are most prepared for Christmas when you are done trying to make any performance into the gift, and instead simply revel in his presence as the gift. ~ Ann Voskamp

This is our second Christmas with baby J, and he is loving it. He remembers last year, and he is ecstatic about every. little. thing. He is not just ecstatic, he has worked himself up into a euphoric, over-stimulated ball of excitement. I love that baby J is loving Christmas… but it’s also hard to…

My mom got me these cute little red house candle holders last year, and I have been waiting all year long to use them! And these moose pillows… I love them so much, I might leave them out all Winter. We clearly need to change the photo, since it is from last year, but how…

There’s a little girl trembling on a cold December mornCyin’ for momma’s armsAt an orphanage just outside a little China townWhere the forgotten are But half a world away I hangThe stockings by the fireAnd dream about the dayWhen I can finally call you mine It’s Christmas time again but you’re not homeYour family is…

In just a month we will be making our way back to Children’s (and hopefully not before that!) for tiny P’s heart surgery… And right now we have no idea of exactly what that surgery will entail… I’ve been trying to think of what to say, how to explain what we know, how we feel,…

Think our hands are full? You should see our hearts!