Good Days

Mariah’s follow up appointment for labs and infusion didn’t go as expected. Considering how tired she’s been lately, all the stress she’s been under and the fact that we just experimented with almost… Read More →

The 3 Month Stretch

My daughter’s last infusion was three months ago. YES. Three months ago. How does a girl go from bi-weekly infusions to a 3 month stretch? You’ve missed a lot. Before Mariah’s state pageant… Read More →

Would’ve Been

This week, actually at this exact moment, we would’ve been checking in to the National pageant in Southern California if things had gone according to plan. I don’t know why I expected them… Read More →

The Results

With all the work we’ve been doing with Mariah to prepare her for last weekends pageant, I didn’t have the time or energy to write anything. My bad. I’ve had a few people… Read More →

The Reality

picking up from where I left off on “Take Chances” ……. It wasn’t until we reached the orientation that I realized the extent of her limitations. Her IV was in her right arm… Read More →

Take Chances

The first of these lessons learned that I’m going to share came from my daughter. Even though she’s my middle child, I’ve decided to share her story first because out of all of… Read More →

Lessons Learned

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”  ― Robert Frost Sometimes life throws you a curve ball, or three. These last couple of months have taught… Read More →

Madness of Time

Life has gotten crazy.     CRAZY! Crazy busy, crazy stories, crazy people and crazy times. Sound fun? Not really.   I’ll start with the biggest time consumer of them all…. baseball. Mr… Read More →

He’s Black?

This conversation ACTUALLY happened between Mr T and I the other night while driving home from grocery shopping. I couldn’t make this shit up if I tried ……..  “So you know, I was… Read More →

Kreatively Speaking

You’re jealous aren’t you? That’s ok, I completely understand! But before you all get your panties in a wad ( I just used the word panties people ), let me share that six of… Read More →