Category: Arabella Grace
Updated on October 1, 2017
Contemplating Colostrum
It was our first morning as NICU parents. Shiloh had been born the night before, and had had an eventful night of tests and examinations and intervention. I had spent most of the night recovering on the maternity… Read More
Posted on July 21, 2017
Car seats, surgery & provision
I just got off the phone with Seattle Children’s. Arabella’s open heart surgery is officially scheduled for October 5th. We’ve known it’s coming for a long time. We knew even before she was born, that if somehow she… Read More
Posted on March 17, 2017
Four Letter Words Part Two
It was the second cold of the month, and once again it went straight to her lungs. The deep rattle immediately settled down in her chest, almost before any other perceptible symptoms. This time we knew where we… Read More
Updated on February 25, 2017
A glimpse at the Father’s heart
Oh the emotional roller coaster the past few days has been. Really, we are overcome with gratitude. Surgery went well, Bella won hearts and sailed through her hospital stay like a champ…although she was quite ready to get… Read More
Updated on February 11, 2017
Sowing in tears, reaping in joy
I’m staring at the blinking cursor on the screen. This should be an easy post to write, shouldn’t it? Shouldn’t the words flow fast and free? Oh the joy and celebration this day represents! The smell of cupcakes… Read More
Posted on June 10, 2016
Dear Arabella (June 10, 2016)
Dear Arabella, My sweet, sweet girl. Yesterday we celebrated TEN months of breathing, miraculous life. So many seconds, minutes, hours, and days beyond what we expected to have. Your mama still gets choked up when she thinks about… Read More
Updated on May 10, 2016
Flying into nine months
Our little peanut turned nine months old yesterday. Which means, despite the fact that we are leaving in approximately 9 hours and bags remain mostly unpacked, I had to whisk her outside today for just a few pictures…. Read More
Posted on April 23, 2016
Straight from a mama’s heart
It was the first time I ever noticed the, “what’s wrong with her?” look. We had been expecting it. That first day the diagnosis was postulated, sitting in the pediatrician’s office with the geneticist’s report in our lap,… Read More
Updated on April 7, 2016
Eight Months Early
Today, Bella flat out refused her afternoon nap. It was really my fault – she had stolen an odd catnap here and there earlier in the day as we went on a shopping adventure. But the punishment for… Read More
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