Having to stay home from dinner last night was very hard on me. I felt like my biggest fear was coming true. (I woke up to pump breast milk and had to get this out.) My biggest fear of parenthood was planted in my brain almost 20 years ago: Not being able to be the … Continue reading
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Is it a lie if
Is it a life if you say you are OK when someone who loves you asks and you know there is nothing they could do to make you better? I don’t think so. But I apologized to my father-in-law for telling the lie anyway. We spent the day at an Omaha hospital, visiting my husband’s … Continue reading
A taste of what is to come
We are in Omaha spending time with family this weekend. It is an important time for my husband’s family to be together. It is an incredible, humorous and deeply loving family that I consider myself lucky to be a part of. If you pray, please include them all. The visit also is giving me a … Continue reading
Let the packing begin
Over lunch today we put our deposit down on the new place. That’s a relief. Now, the chain of reactions can begin. We’ll get the keys two weeks from today (and pay both the prorated and first month’s rent — EEK!). The next morning I check in for surgery. Let the packing begin. We started … Continue reading
One step at a time
Today was one giant lesson in patience and fortitude. Today, things we thought we could check off of our massive pre-surgery to-do list were thrown right back in our faces. Here’s what happened: I put down the deposit for the first floor apartment in our building yesterday afternoon. That, I thought, was all we would … Continue reading
Separated at Birth 