We finally spoke to the neurosurgeon. My husband definitely needs surgery. His spinal cord is irreversibly damaged. And there is a lot of pressure on it right now and the pressure needs to be relieved. He can travel home. The danger is that if he were to get into a car accident or if he
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A snapshot is exactly that. Just a snapshot.
You know when you see those shows like the Duggars Do New York or when Jon and Kate plus Eight took their whole herd to Hawaii? You know how all the kids either have a buddy or how there is an extra grown up or three and everything runs so smoothly and you are amazed
More Lessons From Vacation
We have too much crap in our house. I have too much crap, and my kids have too much crap. We have too many toys and too many clothes and too many, well, too many of pretty much everything. And I don’t feel like we are really over-the-top. My kids have much less stuff than
And that’s exactly how I want him to think of me.
The last three or four times I was on vacation, I was pregnant, so I didn’t really care what I weighed or how imperfect my body was while I was at the beach in a bathing suit. But now I’m not pregnant, and I’m heavier than I’d like to be. Twenty years ago, I would
A book review for moms like me: Here I Go Again
I used to be a really big reader. Then I had like a thousand kids in less than seven years, and reading a book that was more than twenty pages long whose pages weren’t made out of cardboard wasn’t really possible for me. By the time I made it to the end of the day
Another Lesson From North Carolina
You know how your husband will be gone traveling for work or just putting in long hours on the job and he’s never around and you’re feeling like a single parent and you’re exhausted and tired of doing everything yourself and you are just wishing for him to be home so you can have some