Category: Arabella Grace

The true start of the journey

I went in to get Bella this morning, having just finished my daily stroll down memory lane on Timehop. She was grinning up a storm, flapping her arms excitedly…and instantly my eyes welled up with tears. I began… Read More

Immeasurably More

All we wanted was breath. Enough lung tissue to breathe. A rib cage that grew large enough for that lung tissue to develop. That request alone seemed like a pie in the sky, I know you’re powerful enough… Read More

Six months

We are finally living in our new home. I almost wrote “we are finally moved in to our home.” But moved in seems to indicate that all unpacking has been accomplished. And such indications would be a bold… Read More

Bella’s Heart – The Decision

Photo credit: Stephanie Nunley Photography The phone rang tonight just as we were sitting down to dinner at my in-laws, just before the first bite was shoveled in. Hunting for the ringing phone under boxes of takeout, I… Read More

Bella’s Heart

It was in the genetic counselor’s office, during that first pregnant trip to Seattle, that we first heard about it. We had just received the crushing news that our daughter’s rib cage would not grow large enough for… Read More

Santa Baby

(As you can tell, both of our girls are HUGE fans of the man in the red suit.) Thank you all for your prayers for little Miss Bella’s tummy issues! Shortly after the last post we switched her… Read More

Four months of grace

Our sweet Bella turned four months old this week.

Markers

I drive past it at least once a week. Anytime I head to Walmart, Home Depot or across the north end bridge. Just as the road curves. The cemetery where we had researched burial plots for our daughter…. Read More

Four Letter Words

I grew up in a conservative, God-fearing, church-going family. Consequently, there were quite a few four letter words that upon pain of punishment were not to be uttered in our household. We were taught that these words were… Read More

Neither here nor there

I break all conventional rules of blogging. I write posts that are too long. And sometimes, like today, there’s not a singular cohesive point to what I post. But let’s be honest, since I’m going on six plus… Read More