Her 1st birthday…. Three years ago yesterday, July 23rd, 2011, was a day I’ll never, ever forget. Annabelle had just celebrated her 1st birthday a few days prior. The night before, she’d been a little puny and we’d toyed around with whether we needed to take her to the ER, but her oxygen level settled […]
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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 […]
3 Years Ago Today….
April 9th, 2011…. It’s a day forever etched in my memory. I’d gone to bed on April 8th a broken, battered woman. Not physically, but my heart was so worn and weary that I might as well have been. Laying in a twin bed at the Ronald McDonald House, I’d laid there, exhausted and hopeless, […]
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 […]
Sweet Annabelle Update
I’m sitting in Annabelle’s hospital room tonight, waiting for her to go to sleep so I can go to sleep. She slept most of the evening away, so I might have a long wait! She’s graduated to a “big girl” bed for the first time vs the hospital crib. While this is GREAT for her, […]