The Dancing Shirt
As a parent there is something very special about watching your younger children grow in shape and size. Inch by inch they begin to fit...
A Quiet Medical Epidemic (part 1)
There is a medical epidemic that has been quietly brewing in my community for a couple of years. For the past 18 months, it has been...
Goodbye Dear Isaac
How do we help our children comprehend death? The goodbye unto the Lord's arms? A "till I see you there" kind of goodbye? ...I have...
Visiting a Dying Friend
My friend Julie says it best "Six year old boys should be worried about where they left their favorite lego figurines... Parents of six...
Super-Powered Mom
I just returned home from my first Hearts at Home moms conference. I went with a friend who four years earlier had gone to her first...
A Week of No Sleep
In our home, who gets to sleep and when, is very precarious. Levi needs 24/7 ICU level care, which means someone is always awake caring...
Sharing a Muffin
On some days, the smallest of moments radiate with the brightest of lights, and I am filled with overwhelming astonishment, grief and...
No Longer Big
I knew the day was coming and then, it happened.... One of the ripple effects of Levi's severe brain damage has been a much slower...
Beauty and the Beast
There is an incredible dichotomy that arises when you have a child who outlives their prognosis of a shortened life expectancy. The...
The Arrival of Spring
It is a beautiful spring day; warm sun, blue sky, and birds chirping. This is the day when I say to myself, “finally we have made it...
