Six Months Post Surgery
It has been 6 months since Cade’s bilateral Symes Amputation at Boston Children’s Hospital and he’s doing great. I wouldn’t choose to go back to those before surgery moments, in spite of how cute he…
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Refreshing Honesty
It’s been a crazy few weeks here but we’re finally back at the keys. We bought a house, scrambled to sell our house, had a sick baby which coincided with a million people traipsing through…
Reaching for the Stars…or iPhones
Oh boy. Oh boy indeed. Our little Cade is an adventurer, troublemaker, a bonafide reacher-for-the-stars, or iPhones and we just took his 11 month pictures (a hard feat now that he wants to eat the…
A New Year, An Unrepeatable Gift
It has been quite awhile since we offered any updates on Cade’s progress and journey with his prosthetics. It’s a whole new year even! We’ve (Cade and I) have been hunkering down in lovely…
All I Want For Christmas Are These Two Sweet Feet
Whelp. So the shoe shopping was a bit harder than expected. I even took Saturday off of work to go downtown with Matt and Cade. Our goal was three-fold: 1) Find our baby some adorable…
And then there were feet…
And Matt and I are still smiling. It feels so good to be on the other side of the surgery…to be in the land of recovery, liner fittings, and great visits to Next Step Bionics and Prosthetics…
Embracing Thankfulness
I think more than ever we ALL need to be thankful. At least for my immediate family, this year deserves to be remembered and viewed through the lenses of eternity. Our world can…
Surgery Day
This has been exhausting. This whole process. Learning to let go, say goodbye, embrace the new and look ahead. We see possibility, we scream it rather than choosing disability. We see our strong fighter,…
Halloween (or some mean joke people play on new mothers)
So I learned a few things last night, eight to be precise. And now I pass them on to you. I’m just a ball of wisdom these days. Soak it up people. (1) You’re likely…