Whirlwind!

The last week or so have been so crazy and busy! One of my best friends got married so that took up all of our time; naturally. May I just say that other than my own wedding, this was the most beautiful, Christ centered weddings I have ever been to! Not only that but the bride and groom were glowing with love! Look at how gorgeous they were!

Congratulations Matt and Mackenzie! I wish you both a lifetime of happiness! You both are amazing and I love you to the moon and back! 

Now, on to my lucky little fin :)

We are now coming up on his first surgery and to be honest... I'm freaking out! Pretty sure that's normal though considering he is the light of my life and he has to get surgery. I didn't even have surgery until I was in college and my husband has never had surgery. A lot of people go through their whole lives without being put under and yet my baby, my little 7 month old ball of energy, has to have surgery. Now, I try to count my blessings of my little man on a daily basis but there are days where I question. Why? Why him and why so young? 

As a mom, when you are pregnant, there are a million questions that go through your head and a million different thoughts. You start to wonder and think of all the things that could go "wrong." 

**Quotes because I think that nothing can go wrong, it's exactly how it is supposed to happen**

You think "maybe my child will have a disability, or a mental issue. Maybe they will come out with a club foot or cleft pallet. Maybe they will grow up and had ADD or something like that." Your mind wonders through so many different questions and ideas because you honestly have no clue. Yes, there is testing but I have heard so many mixed reviews that, why bother? Sometimes you take the test for down syndrome and it comes back positive so they do another test, all the while you are stressing about your first results to then see it come back negative. Anyway, with those thoughts, you also think, there is no way that my baby will have anything like that. He or she will come out perfect! In my opinion, all babies are perfect :) 

So as I was having all these thoughts I was looking around me and also thought that there is no way. What are the odds that my child would have something like this? Sure enough, he does and we have a long journey ahead of us. But! We are prepared as we will ever get and now prepping for surgery in June. My little guppy is strong and I know will have no problems! He is a champ and this is the first of many! Mommy loves you little man! 

Just a few pictures to update you all :)

Loves bath time and chewing towels

Bridal party imitating the groomsmen

Sitting up on his own

Bride on the left ! 

Have a Blessed Day! 

Count Your Blessings!

I am a part of a group on Facebook that is for breastfeeding mommies as well as mommy advice. There are over 26,000 members so there are A LOT of posts on there daily! Posts range from all over which is nice and makes for a fun day if I have time to look the posts over. Very entertaining!

Anyway, tonight I say a post with a picture of baby feet and I wondered what the post could be about so I clicked the picture. Well the mom was asking if her sons toes looked alright. That the second toe seemed to be shorter than the other toes. My first reaction was "Are you kidding me??!" To be honest I was a little upset that this mom had the nerve to post a picture about her son's almost perfect toes because one looked shorter than the others. I almost made a comment that was very rude and luckily I thought before I posted and decided it was a bad idea. I scrolled on and tried to forget about this mom's picture and question.

My night goes on and my son and I do our whole bedtime routine of a bath, food and then bed. Not once does this post cross my mind because I have forgotten all about it and moved on. Well I get on my computer after he is asleep and I am scrolling and there it is again!

** Let me just say, most of the time, I never see the same post twice from this group page because there are so many and that mixed with my friends; they tend to disappear. **

But! The picture was there and it had quite a few comments on it so of course I had to look. In my mind there was going to be a comment about how silly this mother was being and she needs to calm down. (Just being honest!) And there were no comments like that at all! Every mom said something about her son or daughters toes and there were quite a few pictures. At this point I got a little upset. Again, how could she worry about something so silly when my son doesn't even have toes! Maybe it was jealousy, maybe not, either way it upset me.

After thinking about how I could politely say that she is being crazy I commented on her post. I stated that she should count her blessings that her son has all of his toes and I posted a picture of my son missing his toes. Nothing has come of it and I don't expect it too with how people react in person but it just seemed silly.

Once I made the post I couldn't help but laugh at how silly this mom was! Needless to say I hope that my son having ABS made another mommy think and count her blessings that her child has all his toes.

With that said. I absolutely love my sons little toes and I went back into his room after all of this to just stare at his most perfect fingers and to give him a little kiss on his perfect little toes.

I have always heard "God only gives special children to special parents" and I hope that I can make that true. Maybe by calming down and making a light hearted post, my little guppy has changed another life. I know he sure has changed mine and I am forever grateful for that!

Just wanted to share a fun photo of my little guppy helping me with the laundry!

Have a Blessed Day! 

House Hunting!

Ugh. Over the last 5 years I have moved 11 times and now... we have to move again! Making this, number 12. I hate moving! It would be so much better if this move was going to be our final move and we would be done but nope! Not an option now so I just have to suck it up and move on! Needless to say, I have a fun story that comes out of this that has to do with my little guppy, Jude.

Today he and I had a full day of errands, lunch dates and other meetings which I dragged him all over town for. One of our stops was to look at some nice apartments that could potentially be our next home.

Side note: I have only been looking for the last 24 hours but when I get into something like this, I don't stop until my goal is complete so by this point, I'm exhausted.

We pull up to the complex and we are greeting by a very nice lady which my immediate thought was that she was just trying to sell an apartment to me which is why she was so nice. As we move into her office she boldly states that notices his fingers are different. I was a little taken-aback by this because most people dodge around or wait for me to bring up his perfect little hands and toes. She on the other hand dove right in! I of course tell her in a sweet voice that he was born with ABS and I explain all about what it is but how we are fortunate with how it affected him. Meaning, it didn't take his arm or leg or hurt him even worse.

After I tell her about this she continues on to ask questions and wonder about surgeries and how he will do growing up. I just want to say, I was almost in tears with how we were talking. She was so very sweet and encouraging through the whole situation. Most people ask and after I explain they want to move on, almost as if they are uncomfortable with the situation. This lady? Nope! Pressed on hardcore. Enough that I was able to tell her how we specifically prayed for his fingers and toes and were upset at God on why he didn't grant that. Come to find out that she is a believer too and that leads on to a whole other conversation!

All I have to say is that as much as I hate looking for a new house/apartment, this made it just a little bit better. Almost makes me want to live there so that I can talk to her all the time!

I just wanted to share this story because even in the crappy situations in life, believer or not, there's always some good either in the situation itself or right around the corner. The odds of us moving to this apartment are slim but it's still nice to know that there are people out there who actually care and are sweet when it comes to lucky fins.


Oh! I finally added his 5 month photo with dad :) Working on uploading his 6 month one before he turns 7 months! Life is crazy!

Just wanted to add an extra photo and show him off :)

Have a Blessed Day!