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Walmart Family Mobile – a Cheap Wireless Plan option 16 Aug 2013 | 09:15 am
I am a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community. This shop for affordable, no-contract cell phone service has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collectiv...
Getting ready for middle school… Already? 14 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
What they say is definitely true — time flies when you have kids. I remember that the first five years of Abbi’s life seemed like such a long time, up until she was ready to head off to kindergarten. ...
Floor Number 9 12 Jul 2013 | 11:03 am
Back when Hannah was in the hospital after her surgery in April, we didn’t really meet very many of the other kids who were also on the the 9th floor (the ‘cancer’ floor) at Helen DeVos Children’s hos...
Sum-Sum-Summertime! 24 Jun 2013 | 11:41 pm
I’ve come to realize that summer ‘vacation’ is a misnomer – at least when it comes to parents. Between summer programs, play dates, appointments and sleepovers – so far my summer has been taken up by ...
7 Weeks Post-Surgery 6 Jun 2013 | 12:50 am
What a lot we’ve gone through in just 7 short weeks! From the early days right after Hannah’s surgery, which involved her 5-night stay in the hospital (I stayed with her all 5 nights as well), to her ...
41 Days Ago… 28 May 2013 | 09:33 pm
A little over a month ago, Ron and I headed back into downtown Grand Rapids with Hannah to face surgery day. I’d been a nervous wreck for a while beforehand – but never so much as that morning. Hannah...
Never say Never 20 Mar 2013 | 12:37 am
If there’s one thing I’ve learned throughout this whole process with Hannah’s knee tumor it’s to never count on any answer being the ‘final’ one. The whole process has been a rollercoaster and every t...
A (hopefully) final knee-related update! 9 Mar 2013 | 12:15 pm
We’ve gotten to know our local children’s hospital rather well lately – better than I ever really cared to. Thankfully we’ve made our last trip there – at least for a little while, but it definitely m...
Slushies and Scans 24 Feb 2013 | 02:14 am
You know how you have moments where suddenly your whole perspective changes? I can remember very specifically a few of those in my life – most notably the four times I’ve seen positive pregnancy tests...
And the roller coaster ride continues… 15 Feb 2013 | 09:05 pm
I swear that the ups and downs of this whole process are going to give me an ulcer – or something. I guess that’s just life though – it is what it is. Every time we think that we’re done worrying abou...
