I know it’s an overly dramatic title. Music is not really dead, but I feel a large part of Firstborn’s life is being put away. Firstborn has been playing in an orchestra since just after his third grade year. That’s roughly 12 years. It has […]

2017 Update: This will be the last Throwback Thursday for a while. I’ve got to focus on our impending move. Quick recap of prior two posts Difficult Year I, and Difficult Year II: My husband and I were hoping to add a sixth child to […]

When I was a little girl, I remember a Sunday lesson on death.  The teacher had a glove.  She asked us if it could move on its own.  We answered no.  She put the glove on and demonstrated how moving her fingers inside the glove […]

I had intended to post on Memorial Day about part of our summertime game plan. Instead I found my family packing up to race across country–in hopes of saying goodbye to our beloved Grandmother. She was a powerhouse of faith, service and spirituality.  We will […]

It’s taken me a long while to write about this because of how sensitive the feelings of those involved are. Let’s first visit the day we found out that not only was Acroboy on the Autism spectrum, but that he has ADHD as well.  I […]

I haven’t written in some time (I’ve been feeling poorly).  So much has happened.   First of all, I had good intentions for the summer with keeping us scheduled, but in all honesty, I should have planned for more downtime.  Trying to do swim lessons and […]

In January I posted about letting go, it has been a real struggle to do that.  I didn’t want to give up if it was in the Lord’s plan for my husband and I to have more children, but I was trying to let go […]

We met with a neurologist and someone who works in speech who administered an ADOS evaluation for Acroboy.  They determined that yes, Acroboy meets the criteria for being on the spectrum.  He is overly formal in his communications at times, blurts out random phrases like, […]

I’m writing this with a heavy heart.  I’ve been hoping since the last miscarriage that we’d be able to get pregnant again.  My family doesn’t think I should even try.  They all seem to take the ectopic pregnancy and two miscarriages  as a sign I’m […]

Difficult Year Part II–Dealing with Grief I left off my last post having found out I had lost our second baby after losing the first one in an ectopic pregnancy.  Most likely our baby had Trisomy 18.  This time I had seen our baby move.  […]