Life As I Know It

Today is Ja.son's Homecoming Day! On this day 8 years ago, after 100!!! long days in the NICU, we finally got to bring Ja.son home! ...

"Mom, why are my legs on backwards?" he asked just after dinner. I stopped what I was doing and looked at him. "What do yo...

7 years ago on Thursday, after 100 days in the NICU, we got to bring our Ja.son home. I gave him the choice of celebrating his day on t...

Yesterday was Sh.awn's Day. 7 years ago yesterday, Shawn came home from the NICU. He was 90 days old. 7 years ago yesterday, after spe...

The big boys turned 7 on Monday. It truly blows my mind.  Ja.son Sh.awn They are so big and smart and funny and amazing--every...

Yesterday, May 4, was Parents of Preemies Day. Few things in my life have shaken my core like having my boys prematurely. While giving bir...

Notice anything on that beautiful face? Come on. Look again. That's right, you don't! Ja.son isn't wearing his glasses!! ...

Their due date was this week. It quietly eased passed without anyone really even noticing. Maybe this year I spent less time thinking abou...

Someone on a message board I frequent asked the other day if we ever wondered how our kids would be had they not been born prematurely. Thre...

I have more to say on this topic, but I am trying to finish my grades (I hate grading!) and time is limited tonight. I did still want to com...

Dare I say that things are settling? In a good way even. Both the boys are finally doing well in school. My own classes have found their...

Today is Parents of Preemies Day. Times two! Nothing has rocked our world as much as prematurity has. I don't say those words lig...

Today we celebrated Sh.awn's Homecoming Day . We made the day all about him and his choices. He LOVED it. Ja.son, however, wasn't n...

On this day five years ago, our little Sh.awn came home from the hospital! We were so excited to get the chance to finally be parents withou...

Yesterday was their due date. It's a day that should really hold little meaning five  years after the fact with the focus now on the day...

On Christmas Eve, I made my first return visit to the NICU since the boys were discharged five years ago. It's funny that it was so di...

Today was World Prematurity Day. We wore our purple, but I have to say that the weight of how prematurity has affected our lives was heavy ...

November 17 is World Prematurity Day, a day when we focus on the global (and our very personal) problem of premature birth. Shawn on the...

On this day, five years ago, Baby A's (Sh.awn's) sack ruptured. I was exactly 26 weeks pregnant. The countdown to the boys' b...

40 days from now, I will participate in my first March of Dimes March for Babies. I have to say that the prospect of participating makes me ...