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 […]
A Different Kind of Worry
If I wanted to sound really Christian, I would title this post, “A Different Kind of Concern” because…. Christians aren’t supposed to worry, right? We call it “concern” to make ourselves feel a little more holy. Actually, I should own this one and say this is what *I* tend to do. It’s such a balancing […]
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 4th HEART-BIRTHDAY ANNABELLE!!!
This is probably the most exciting and the most difficult post to write each year. FOUR years ago today, our daughter received the most amazing gift. The gift of LIFE. Not of eternal life—we know that gift comes from JESUS as we just celebrated. But no, a gift of life here on Earth, of extra […]