A Lil Lytnin' Strikes Lung Cancer

I love summer. I loved it as a kid, and I love it even more as a mom. The long, lazy days, the ease of going outside to play without bundlin...

First, let me clarify. I actually kinda love numbers and find them quite beautiful. And I think research is fascinating and the whole scient...

I've always had issues with the advice, "live every day as if it were your last." Do you realize how messed up the world would...

Thank you, everyone, for the outpouring of support. It has been just wonderful and I am humbled by the generosity and love from all over the...

I lead a pretty golden life. I have an amazing husband who balances out all my quirks perfectly, I have three wonderful and sweet kids, thin...

Tomorrow little Z will turn three years old. In keeping with tradition, I made him a birthday hat. As I had hoped, he designed it himself th...

As the shock of raising two babies at once (with an almost 3 year old in the mix, too) is wearing off, I am starting to see a lot of wonderf...

The girls had their monthly weight check, and their weights are now 10 lbs 10 oz for Autumn, and 9 lbs even for Mikaela. They are progressin...

In what is both the strangest and cooled birth gift I've ever received, my sister bought a DNA test for the girls so we can determine wh...

May 1 is the girls' official due date, and they are almost 8 weeks old. Weird. They are now 6 lb 8 oz and 7 lb 9 oz. I can't even i...

While Mikaela has been enjoying settling in at home, Autumn decided to take matters into her own hands, and removed her feeding tube.  Oh, ...

I'm home with a cold today, so Jason is spending the day with the girls. He sent me a text with this picture. Do you see what I see (or,...

Yesterday morning I got a call from the NICU telling me that they were taking Mikaela for an echocardiogram because has a heart murmur and w...

I have been repeatedly told that the NICU experience is an intricate dance of "two steps forward, one step back." After what has b...

When I arrived in the NICU today, I was shocked to discover that they had opened the lids to both girls' incubators. Wow, what a great ...

Late Tuesday night (March 8), after a dramatic emergency c-section (let's just say I am very grateful I was in the hospital), our beauti...

(Big sigh of relief) We have made it to a major milestone, 32 weeks pregnant (the point at which survival and disability rates greatly impro...

These past few weeks in the hospital have given me a very simplified way of approaching each day. Essentially, my one purpose right now it t...

I was joking with Jason that I kinda feel like I'm in a minimum security prison. He told me that he saw a special on a minimum security ...

Answer: In the hospital. Yes, this pregnancy has been quite crazy, and now it looks like I will be in the hospital until the girls are born,...