Four months ago I found out my husband had a many months-long sexting affair with a woman before, during, and after my difficult pregnancy with our twins. Seven days later our son Hart was diagnosed with a life-long brain injury called PVL (more on that here) that will affect every aspect of his life for…
Broken

Raising Two Very Differently Abled Twins

I sit here as Hart and I are embarking on his second intensive therapy session away from our family. First we went to The NAPA Center in Los Angeles for three weeks, now we are getting hyperbaric oxygen therapy in New Orleans for a month. As a family we are all making huge sacrifices to…
Must-Haves for Traveling with a 1-Year-Old: Solo Edition

I took the dreaded cross-county flight with a one-year-old… solo. Overall it went very “okay” which is pretty darn good. Here’s what I did well and here’s what I would change. Do this: Does your baby like to move? Crawl? Walk? If no, don’t buy them an airplane seat. If yes, keep reading. Does…
My Hart

From the minute he was born I knew something was different with Hart. The nurses struggled to straighten his legs to measure his length. He suckled hard, shallow, and often until I bled and he spit up black. I took him to get his lip and tongue tie released. All issues persisted. I took him…
I’m Sad.

I don’t want to write this but here I am, writing. Now Page 6 and US Weekly can get those quotes they want and you guys can get the truth. I found out the same way you guys did: in the tabloids. I never left a voicemail for the other woman. I called Jimmy…
An Old Tale (that ends in a Tail)

This is an old tale that has been told many times before and will continue to be told. We typically know this tale through oral history but any parent can write their own version. The difference is that my tale ends in a tail… This past weekend my husband had to work a bunch (aka…