Unremarkably Remarkable – Leo’s Birth Story

Leo, I hope you enjoy the story of the day you were born. From the outside looking in, it may seem unremarkable, but to us, you made October 24, 2014 so very remarkable! It was around 3:00 a.m in the middle of a Friday morning when I first felt a true contraction. I was working from home that week and my firm had just delivered one of our biggest proposal efforts during my last week working. My girlfriends and I were all planning[Read more]

To Find Out or Not to Find Out, That is Not the Question

Photo courtesy of The Krazy LIfe This conversation probably sounds pretty common for expecting mothers weather it’s your first child or second, am I right!? People: “You’re pregnant, congratulations!….” Me: “Thank you! We are excited and Luke’s ready to be a big brother! People: “When are you due?” Me: “The end of October. Fingers crossed it’s not a Halloween baby!” People: “Do you know what you are having?” Me: “Not yet, we are actually going to try and not find[Read more]

Letters to Little One

I wrote this to our Little One 3 weeks ago but in the midst of transferring my blog to WordPress, I am just now getting around to posting it. This picture is from last week and I am at 19 weeks today, definitely sporting a bigger bump than the last time! Hi Little One, oh my, where do we begin…. [Side note – just this moment as I sat down to write to you, you started fluttering.] I just started to feel you[Read more]