Category: Arabella Grace
Updated on March 17, 2016
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
Updated on March 1, 2016
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
Posted on February 11, 2016
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
Updated on January 20, 2016
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
Updated on January 16, 2016
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
Updated on January 16, 2016
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
Updated on September 25, 2015
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
Updated on January 16, 2016
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
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