I’ve been feeling a little…lost lately. The places and people that have always been my refuge have lost their familiarity.  Where I used to know where to run or what to do for comfort, I’m just not sure now. I honestly can’t give you many details about the last three years, but I remember 2015… Continue reading Lost

Choose family. There is no time for regret.  If you have the opportunity to have a relationship with your family, do it.   Don’t leave people wondering whether or not they matter to you. Don’t wait until the last minute to try to squeeze memories in. If you can go, GO. If my sweet husband hadn’t… Continue reading Lessons

For about two months now, I have been working on ME.  That has looked like making a lot of choices that I’ve avoided for the last several years. One of those choices was working to control my binge eating.  I’ve been an emotional eater for a long time. It really began in college and has… Continue reading Broken Beauty

Three years ago this month, we joyously announced my pregnancy with our beautiful baby Les.  We didn’t know he was Les, yet… we just knew there was a tiny baby growing in my tummy, and we were ecstatic.  All of our dreams of starting a family together were finally coming true, and we celebrated our… Continue reading Glory Baby

It’s the lump that forms in my throat during every Pampers commercial. It’s leaving a grocery cart behind and running to my car to cry because a parent was screaming at and belittling their precious child on the aisle where I just wanted to buy some cereal. It’s not being able to handle the empty… Continue reading what it’s like