Just four years ago this morning, I looked like this,
A few hours later and I was holding one sweet baby girl, my Olivia Marie.
8lbs, 7oz and 21″ of quiet perfection.
It’s no surprise that Livie, my most introverted child, made her grand entrance into this world with just a whimper of a cry.
From her first moments, [...]
We had quite the outing today. Doctor’s office visits are notorious for creating fear in young children. However, usually, the fear is created in the child who is actually seeing the doctor. Not so with Lulu.
Lila’s doctor’s appointment went something like this:
“I don’t want to be here. I don’t want to be here Mommy. Mommy [...]
Poor sweet Lulu, I think we might have to literally stay thisclose for the rest of her life. Ahhh, separation and grief have not been kind to my Lulu’s sense of security. I worry about her. Will she ever feel safe again? A mother who has constantly left her from her earliest months is [...]
So, I’ve been needing to work on the Livie puzzle out loud again. I want to make her “normal.” David and I both try. Out of nowhere, we’ll get a notion that she is just like every other 2 year old, since that seems to be the popular opinion, and treat her Livie moments as [...]
