One Week Out
Sigh. Grumble. Oh crap. How are we here already? I suppose that all comes to mind. We are officially moving into the one week countdown to Caedmon’s surgery. His big surgery at Children’s Hospital in…
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One Year Later
Today is a big day for us in many ways. August 29th. I can barely believe it really. Barely believe it has been exactly one year since the grief came knocking and overwhelmed the joy…
Grace and The Momma Bear
I watched those dull, questioning eyes see my son. In a flicker there was curiosity, perhaps confusion. But to me it seemed harsher than curiosity, more intense then confusion and frankly, downright rude. My mind catapulted…
Cade’s First Surgery
We knew very early on that baby Cade had a probable diagnosis of Fibular Hemimelia and we were already surrounded by an amazing medical team before he even graced us with his presence. Matt and…
He’s Here
Our sweet little boy entered the world on Friday March 7, 2014 at 4:52 am weighing 7 lbs 2 oz and we are overjoyed to finally meet him. It’s been an anxious journey, an excited…
Snapshots of Pregnancy
Now that I’m sitting here comfortably on the couch with a sweet little baby in my lap and without the back pain that plagued me throughout pregnancy making just this sort of leisure virtually impossible,…
Baby Cade’s Vintage Nursery
Baby Cade’s nursery was a labor of love and a beautiful distraction amid an emotional pregnancy journey–a special time filled with my sweet dreams for our little blessing. Thank goodness for Pinterest and Etsy and…
How A Name Found Our Little Boy
The chaos of early pregnancy, those frequent doctor’s appointments and ultrasounds…the fear and deep grieving for our little boy’s abnormality, made it impossible for me to dream the way normal parents dream…about names or nursery ideas….
Fibular Hemimelia
Prior to our little boy being diagnosed with a lower limb abnormality, we knew of not a soul who had gone through a similar experience. Our experience with little kids with prosthetics was the occasional.