I just sent Jud’s crib away with a woman named Heather and a little baby girl named Avery Jane growing in her womb.  I became so emotional as she shut the door on her car…she has no idea what that crib means to me; she is driving off with a little piece of my boy.

1.  As the rain pours down in our area this week, I have found myself full of gratitude for the roof over our heads.  Over the last four years I have become acquainted with a kind, local woman who lives without a home and uses the bathroom at our park as her own; I have

My heart joins the multitudes in brokenness over the cataclysmic devastation from the earthquake in Haiti. As I sat in our home two nights ago looking at pictures of Haitians in agony, bodies of loved ones lining the streets, piles of rubble, and severe injuries still untreated, I could hardly breathe.  To taste even for

1. Being the week of our anniversary, the greatest thing that stands out to me this week is gratitude for my hubby.  I am incredibly grateful for our 14 years of marriage and blessed to have had Drake in my life for 17 years now.  As he said in my anniversary card yesterday, “We may

I had never heard this song before, but when Amy F.*, a woman who has come to love our boy through his videos, posted the folowing video that she made in honor of Jud  today, I started to gush when I heard the music.  Ordinary Day by Nick Lachey captures my heart so well and

I have never been a very anxious person.  I remember many years ago a friend who works in health care mentioned that most people are either prone to anxiety or depression.  Of course some struggle with both and some neither, but most tend one direction or the other.  Whether or not her statement is accurate,