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Another page has been turned, another lesson has been learned. The leaves that fell are swept away, to clear the path for another day. Thoughts drifting though the mind, once lost they are hard to find. Pour the coffee black and strong, the year is short but the days are long. A few more wrinklesContinue reading “The High Life”

We’ve all been there. Uncomfortably full with the top button of our pants undone while slipping into a food coma. Your eyes were bigger then your stomach. You knew it was probably not a good idea to keep eating but you did it anyways. Telling yourself to stop but you couldn’t because it was justContinue reading “Too Much Cookiness”

Seasons change. The days are now shorter, the nights are cooler. The sun barely shines over the tallest trees. No more sandals, no more long lines at the ice cream shops, no more late nights swimming in the lake. Our iced lattes have been replaced with hot pumpkin spiced lattes. Summer BBQ’s have been replacedContinue reading “Winter Is Coming”

When I grow up I want to be a… Go on, complete the sentence. What do you want to be when you grow up? Already a grown up? Well then, when you were kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? Take some time if you’d like to think about it. ReallyContinue reading “The Great Outdoors”

“To a parent, your child isn’t just a person: your child was a place, a kind of Narnia, a vast eternal place where the present you were living and the past you remembered and the future you longed for all existed at once.” (NG, 2017, p.122) You may have heard of the book, Little FiresContinue reading “Dazed and Confused”

Hi my name is Theo, I have a story to tell.About why I go to the hospital so much, and it’s not because I fell.It started back in December, I was only four years old.I wasn’t feeling great, the doctors said it was a cold.In January I was still sick, my face was as paleContinue reading “Theo’s Story”

The sun is up, but it is still early. The birds have taken a break from chirping outside our bedroom window. I can tell by the brightness of the room and the stillness outside that it is sometime after 6am but not yet 7am. Theo is sitting up in bed. I can feel his eyesContinue reading “Food Fight”

Consolidation is OVER. Our hospital bag is unpacked and will hopefully stay that way for a long long time. Out of the 63 days of Consolidation, 28 days were spent in the hospital. Turns out, chemotherapy treatment really is tricky! It doesn’t just deceive the leukemia cells from coming back, we were also duped. WhatContinue reading “The Chase”

It is 9:26am. As I sit here in the hospital room all I can hear is the feeding pump gently and rhythmically pushing formula through the NG tube. Silence. I am not used to it. I am waiting for the panic to begin. For the moment Theo wakes up and starts screaming in pain orContinue reading “Red Sky in Morning, Sailors Take Warning”

You are going on vacation. Flight and hotel are booked and you are headed for paradise. Or so you think. First, your luggage gets lost. Then, a storm hits and it dumps rain the entire trip. The roof of your Airbnb is leaking and your rental car got a flat tire in the middle ofContinue reading “Into the Woods”