Barrett’s surgery was a success! The entire procedure lasted about 4 hours and then Barrett was returned to us after a brief time in recovery. All told, we were back home by 3 pm yesterday! Barrett has definitely not found […]
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Today’s the day. At 9 am this morning, Barrett was taken in for his mixed bag surgery. The laundry list of items includes a bilateral hernia repair {meaning both sides}, an orchiopexy {dropping his left nut}, separating a full simple […]
Barrett Thomas Brehm is 11 months young today. As I have done each month, I’d like to take a breather from my ponderings on motherhood and catalog the ins and outs of Barrett’s month. I can hardly believe when I […]
Two weeks prior to Christmas, Barrett was a sniffling, screaming, sad mess for a good {or rather, bad} week. We started noticing his runny nose and “scratchy” throat when he played Jesus in our church Christmas cantata and it only […]
Wow. 2010 is here. I don’t know why it seems so surprising. Since I learned how to count I’ve known that 10 follows nine… just as nine followed eight. But really? 2010? It just seems crazy. Perhaps it’s because 2010 […]
Throughout our marriage, Adam and I have been halfsies. While Adam and I are willing to compromise on most anything else, Holidays never made it on the list of give-ins…and honestly, neither one of us has really ever made the […]
As my physical Christmas cards have been stuck in UPS land for well into a week, I decided to wish season’s greetings virtually {at least for now}. It will have to do as a teaser… Wishing you and yours a […]
In all the hustle and bustle of the blustery week, I am a few days behind on acknowledging Barrett’s ten month mark. Wow. 10 months. The point that people have been telling me about for the entirety of B’s life; […]
I used to be obsessed with People, US Weekly and really any celeb rag magazine. I think I may still be obsessed, I just don’t know it since I’ve less and less time to read such things the last 10 […]
At Barrett’s 2 month check-up, I inquired as to what the napping habits should be of a child his age. The nurse responded “Well. They are usually awake for 1-2 hours at a time during the day … but often […]
