“Why is she carrying her?” It is a question that has been asked of many friends of mine as they have shared our story, but I have not been asked personally. Yet, it has made me think “How would I respond to that?” 95% of women who have babies diagnosed with anencephaly terminate their pregnancies.…
Sophie’s 33rd week was filled with lots of love from her family and friends (every week seems to be like that but this week especially :)! That Thursday, my mother-in-law let us know that there was a special package that would arrive for us. Much to our surprise as we opened it we discovered…
Imagine you’re 3 years old, at the beach, wanting to step into that big blue ocean but terribly afraid it will just swallow you up. You have no concept that you’re daddy who’s standing right beside you can help you over the smallest crashing waves that seems to come up a little too far on…
Sophie’s 32nd week celebration started off on Thursday when our Pastor and his wife took us out to eat and read some of their favorite children’s books with us. I’m not sure how this happened, but we didn’t get ANY pictures with them but it was such a rich evening. They took us…
What a celebration 31 weeks became! I don’t know if our bodies can keep up with all the celebrating, but I think we’re learning that as parents you can muster up energy from the most unlikely of places when it’s for your child! (Don’t worry, we are getting rest and these celebrations have been so…
In the midst of all of the celebrating (which I’ve been a little behind on writing about… coming soon :)), slowly over the past couple of weeks my heart has grown more sad. The cloud of sadness that was hovering over us when we first found out about Sophie’s condition, lifted for the past couple…
Last Thursday was Sophie’s 30th week celebration! Turning 30 was a significant age for me and I really wanted to make it special for Sophie and yet in the midst of the fullness of life didn’t quite have time to put together what I had really wanted to do which was make a 30 things…
Every daughter needs a special date with her dad…many dates actually. And from the first week when we found out about Sophie’s anencephaly, one of the top things on my list to do with her was to take her on a date. (Oh, by the way, this is Kevin–not my incredibly talented blogging wife, Lindsey.)…
Sophie’s 29th week was full of fun surprises and memories! So I thought I’d share it in pictures. Today we celebrate her 30th week, can’t believe she’s getting so old 🙂 I’ll write more about her 30th tomorrow, it was a special one! But, here’s to her 29th week! (You can click on the pictures…
The last week has been quite a whirlwind as Kevin and I have begun leading our summer project at Walt Disney World. Kevin, myself, and 3 others are a part of leading a staff team of 19 along with 58 students that arrived today to be developed in their faith for the summer as they…