I'm not that Fire Fighter's Wife

I'm not your typical wife. I don't put limits on David. He wants to go hunting....go and bring us back a bird. He wants to go fishing...please bring me back a Mako shark. He wants to take overtime...please take the night shift so I can work and also have the remote control at night.

Boston Children's Hospital

It's quite simple. We owe Boo's life to Boston Children's Hospital. Those first scary days in the NICU? It was the nurses who saved my sanity. I will never forget the panic on the doctors face when he gave Boo oxygen and said she needs to be transferred. NOW.

Baboom

You know that favorite song on the radio or one that wasn't quite your favorite but then you hear it live and think....THIS IS IT. This is what the songwriter had in mind when they wrote this song. This song now means something to me. 

My friend Jen Kehl took my idea this week and is making all her DJ's come up with mix-tapes of five songs you loved but blew you away when you saw them live. I think she did it so I wouldn't mess up the topic this week.

Sometimes

Sometimes I get done. Just done. I'm not a hero. I am not a saint. I am just a mom. Sometimes just being mom seems to be too much to ask. I lose my temper. I lose my cool. I lose where I put my keys. 

I am never prepared for what will take the floor from beneath my legs. I think I have it handled and then BOOM. I am back in warrior mom mode.

Thanks...

It is that time of the week to look back and give thanks. I haven't done so in quite some time. Not that I haven't been thankful but just that I have been to overwhelmed to sit back and say,

Thanks for not kicking my ass this week.

3/21 World Down Syndrome Day

Today is World Down Syndrome Day, celebrated by showing the ability. Although Bridget doesn't have Down Syndrome one of her best buddies does. Honestly a part of me feels silly writing today, like I am jumping on the advocacy wagon for a syndrome my own child doesn't even have.

But today is important. Today you must see the ability. You must acknowledge that all children make an impact, those with Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, autism, multiple sclerosis and those children who are sadly typical without that something extra (pun intended).