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Something so horrible I couldn’t possibly keep it to myself

How do you cap off a perfect Mother’s Day? If you’re me, the dessert for your special meal with your beloved only son is the up-close-and-personal experience of having the guy at the table next to you decide to puke R.I.G.H.T. at the table. After which he does NOT do the expected thing of excusing [...]

So, this is what it looks like just before it hits the proverbial fan?

In a perfect world, I spend the next month leisurely packing and feeling relaxed and joyful about this upcoming move. HOWEVER, I do not live in a perfect world…I don’t even live in the kind of world that things occassionally go easily and as planned….I HAVE seen it, I get post cards from there…but I [...]

The Whirlwind, pt 1

Holy CRAP. The kids and I began a marathon of activity Thursday night that has left me sore, exhausted and in deep need of a pedicure. I haven’t had time to blog, sleep or think and it’s just going to get better! This is long, rambly, unorganized, not very well written and I almost NEVER [...]

No regrets

There was a moment, sitting in the uncomfortable pews of the historical church where we gathered to celebrate Maddie’s short life, that I thought to myself “I hope that if it’s ever Peyton, we’ll be able to say the same things Heather and Mike are saying”. I protect myself from funerals in a very bizarre [...]

Waiting for the chocolate hangover to wear off