Miscarried Emotions...

The nurse told me that 1 in 5 women have had a miscarriage but in that moment I didn’t hear her subliminally saying you aren’t alone. All I heard was no; being told no never gets easy, especially as adults. We feel like if we do everything we need to do, in the way that we need to do it, according to the books, straight by the list, never going astray, we will have that thing we’ve wanted for what, at that point, feels like forever.

The Mother: 2nd Letter to my Son! Happy Birthday!

To my sun, my baby bear, my smallest friend, my heartbeat:

I can't believe that two years ago I was somewhere thinking my life would only minimally change by your presence. There are moments now when I try to figure out what my life was about before you. There's a change in perspective about yourself and your life when you have kids and you changed mine in a major way. Here's what you've accomplished this past year:

The Mother: My kid owns an iPad... kinda

Welcome to 2013 where many children own iPhones, iPads, or some variation of a touch screen tablet. Whether it’s an apple product, a Samsung product or even a leap frog our children are learning in ways that we would’ve never imagined. For Christmas my mom got me an iPad and I was beyond excited until I sat down with it and wondered ‘what do I do with an iPad.’ I mean, I already have a laptop and I have an iPhone and they pretty much do what I need them to do. That is until my 8GB iPhone began to tell me I was running out of space and that’s when I had my ah-ha moment of moving non-essential apps to my iPad such as games and social network apps. Little did I know the time I thought I was going to spend playing candy crush on my iPad was about to end immediately.