Burn and Learn

At about the time I was ready to give up Facebook and delete my account, my kids had decided they wanted accounts of their own. That’s honestly the only reason why I kept… Read More →

Heartbroken but Wise

We started receiving mail, emails, phone calls and text messages from the national pageant office almost immediately after state pageant. Once a week something showed up in the mail and the emails and… Read More →

Best Wishes

After the state pageant ended, Mariah quickly got started preparing for the national pageant. She was excited that my stepmom was willing to help and although I was tempted to step in and… Read More →

Click

I waited until my daughter’s infusion was done and we were in the car on the way home to listen to what her message said. “I’ve tried calling you numerous times and can’t… 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 →