Seven years ago this month, the Phillips’ family was flipped upside down and turned inside out. A doctor frowned at an ultrasound picture and said something was very, very wrong with our little precious daughter’s heart. I remember this immediate feeling of inferiority. That I wasn’t up for this. That I wasn’t equipped to handle […]
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HAPPY HEART DAY — FIVE YEARS LATER, Annabelle!!!!
I’m just finally sitting down to my computer for today. I spent the day doing normal things. Garage saling. Grocery shopping. Picking out some paint. Buying a pair of pants (I really need to lay off the Dr. Pepper…), just to detail a few errands. Very normal things. Five years ago was oh-so-different. “Normal” was […]
HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY, PRINCESS ANNABELLE
FIVE AND FABULOUS!!!!! Five. Years. Wow. Five years ago today was one of the scariest days of my life. This little baby who I’d carried in my belly for almost nine months, who was happy with a heart that functioned well in utero, would be leaving my womb to a world where her special heart […]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNABELLE!!!!
She’s coming!!! (7/20/2010) I can barely type this post without tears streaming down my face. Four years. Four years ago yesterday, I woke up after a night full of contracts and questioning if my “water” was still intact and went to work anyway. A quick visit to the doctor to make sure meant we were […]
The Longest Year of our Life
It began on July 20, 2010. We’d known the day was coming for eight months… for the last three months we’d known that it would be a less than ideal day. Our Annabelle was born with half of a functioning heart. Instead of being put into her mother’s arms, she was rushed off and hooked […]