How We Became

Things have been absolutely insane around our household and I have been terribly terribly remiss in updating. I apologize and promise that i...

Recently, I was having an issue with my phone that required genius intervention. Anyone who has any kind of an Apple product understands the...

Nicholas failed his most recent swallow study. I don't honestly remember if I posted anything about that but he did. A swallow study is ...

The problem with hydrocephalus is that it affects people on such an individual level that there's no true list of side effects from it. ...

There's no way to describe the way you feel when the doctor tells you, "We see something wrong," while looking at an ultrasoun...

Zachary has recently been enrolled in the Leadership program at his taekwondo studio. What that means is that he gets an extra class twice a...

If "You've got your hands full!" is the most common thing we hear, "You're so strong!" or "I don't know...

I follow a page on Facebook called The Mighty. It's a haven for special needs parents to vent or cry or share success. This page publish...

It happens every time we are out. People are inevitably drawn to a twin stroller. They lean in and ooooo and ahhhh. "Are they twins?...

Mike had gone back to work before Nicholas came home, but we had had family with us so I was getting help with Zach and Emily while he worke...

The day before Nicholas's discharge date we walked into his room to find an IV in his head. My heart stopped. Why was there an IV in his...

You never really think about how integral eating is as part of our society. We go out to dinner to socialize, celebrate, do business, relax...

The day of surgery came. We were told that he would be in surgery around noon. We got to the hospital early and found an extremely pissed of...

After much discussion with each other, the nurse practitioner, the neonatologist, the nurses we had formed a relationship with, Mike's c...