Our family

Happy Birthday Brody

One year ago we were all snuggled in our bed. Brody was sleeping peacefully and we had no idea what was really happening...the great changes that lay in front of us were just whispers of dreams.
Now a year later and we are a whole new family. Brody is so huge and so small, beautiful, sensitive, sweet, loud, and tons of fun. I've never been happier, or more fulfilled in my life.
I love you my little smushie one. Happy Birthday to us all!

Getting Ready for the One Year Mark

I find myself so excited for Brody's birthday! It's like it's my birthday too and I'm a kid again. In a way it is my birthday too...I could just shed August 24th and adopt July 22...in many ways I died that night and was reborn as a mama. Like the Phoenix rising from the ashes.
It's taken my a year to find my footing. To find my grace again. My body has changed, but that is the least of it...my whole being, my everything has transformed. I'm learning as Brody grows what is means to be me.
Too deep and melodramatic? Well...try giving birth and then we'll talk.

Anyway. I hope to see all my lovely loving support system, i.e. you, at the party on July 25th.

We'll have cake!

My Beautiful Parents

I am so blessed to have such wonderful people in my life, especially those who brought me life. I don't know what I would do without their help as I learn how to be a momma.
Here is a particularly nice photo of them taken on my dad's 72nd birthday last May.