Our Journey Through Life

2016 was a year of joys, sorrow, heartache, love, strength, emotions, happiness, and tears. A year above all years. It was a special year for us. It was a long but short year for us. It was a hard year, a good year. 2016 has been the best year thus far. I began 2016 at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus with Calvin. I was in the Cardiac ICU  with my new baby, waiting on surgery to get his PA band which would help regulate his heart rhythm & breathing. I was so ecstatic to have Calvin in our family. I was at the hospital everyday, for most of the day. I was learning to juggle a 7 year old big brother who still had to do school, but got to spend time with grandparents, being 2 hours away from home, Justin traveling back & forth so he could work, doctors, nurses, and a little baby with a heart condition. 2016 started out in a whirlwind and continued that way. Looking back it went so fast, those first 7 weeks in the hospital seem like they were only a week. Those ne...

Community, what does it mean to you? For Merriam-Webster it means a unified body of individuals as the people with common interests living in a particular area. Community can be your family, your neighborhood, your church, your town. Community can be anything. Community to me is those who are put in our lives to live life with us. Those who God has given us to love and care for during good and bad times. Community is a body of believers from near and far who pray endlessly for you and your family. Community is a group of people who have been through the same thing you have. I belong to a lot of communities: adoption community, heart momma's community, loss of a child community, a local community of believers, and a community of believers near and far to name a few. Community, it is what has helped me grow in my relationship with Christ while going through the loss of Calvin.  Our community has been the biggest blessing ever, from visiting in the hospital to taking me out for a ...