Today is my birthday, and as Drake and Vivian's mother, I find myself asking for the same thing every year. "Father, please..."

I don't know if I have ever been truly grateful for time. When you are young, all you think about is growing older. When you are older...

The hours after Vivian's birth was a bit of a blur. We had decided to induce her around 39 weeks and three days due to me being dilated,...

I typed in my search bar early this morning.. "What does the name Vivian mean in the Bible?".... The search populated and it caught me...

I avoided this day for weeks... I wanted so badly for him to be able to communicate, to show us something, to PROVE he was in there. In...

I am normally full of words… words that help make sense of things that have happened…words that bring understanding….words that I feel...

Eric and I knew raising multiple children were going to be eventful. Raising five children, two with terminal diagnosis, is on a different

She looked at us and then with a exhale stated, “ I am just going to ask..." "Yes ma’am", we replied, not fully knowing what we were agreei

All Vivian’s levels stayed in really nice places after her infusion of red blood cells last night.  Her ECG came back normal, and other than

Today, as I did my devotional I was reminded of the need for prayer. Honest, humble, expectant, desperately seeking Father’s will......

Thanksgiving was this past week and like many of you, we are still recovering from all the wonderful food. This time of year is so fun...

Your seventh birthday, Bubby. It is hard to understand all your little seven year old body has lived through. Last year when your heart..

27 “Peace…I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither...

If I could explain the last year in one word it would be …uncomfortable. It is hard to explain all that we have walked through over the...

Today we got up at 5:30 am, started our normal routine of getting showers, kids up, dressed and fed, Drake and Vivian’s meds and food...

Our sweet girl finally started to settle around Saturday evening. Thursday and Friday the seizures had slowed to not consistently coming...

We took Vivian into the ER Wednesday night to have her evaluated. Her body was on day three of fever, hundreds of seizures, and throwing...

Vivian fought hard all day and the seizures have been so relentless. She spiked a fever of 102.3 this am and we have done medicines and...

Vivian started to seize ever 20 minutes shortly after I got home Monday night. I had meetings all day surrounding the foundation, growth...

In 2016, I stopped sending Christmas cards. Although our family had enjoyed this for years prior, I could not bring myself to take the...

Yesterday I was sitting with our PT discussing some pretty severe issues we are seeing with Drake’s scoliosis and his poor little legs. ...

Ever heard the saying “don’t cry over spilt milk”... Well, last night I cried over hamburger meat. Before you try to guess, no I am not...

Today is Vivian Faye’s Third Birthday...a birthday we were told she would never see. A birthday a few days ago, we were not sure if we...

It has been twenty days since Drake’s heart stopped...unexpectedly....and twenty days since we got to witness our Lord and Savior move...

It has been 10 days since our lives drastically took a turn. I think now that the dust has slightly “settled”, we can all start to try...

As I sit in my bathroom floor and type… if I am being honest… so many thoughts, and emotions are running through my head. The last few...