Tag: motherhood
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Grief
Grief. Not in the way of losing a person, but in losing sight of what you thought would happen. When we were first faced with his diagnosis I was completely numb to it. Reading through checklists in attempt to rule each box out. There was no way that could be my child. I took my […]
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System Failure
I will never say, think, let anyone believe, that my child, any child, is broken. His brain chemistry is complicated, yes. Broken, heck no. Does he misbehave? All the time. Lose control of his feelings? Daily. Well, hourly to be more precise. I’m the first one to realize this. That being said, there are some […]
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Instinct
I learned about F’s existence on my twentieth birthday. I was newly married, still in college, and completely unprepared. Nick and I have been blessed to have a strong connection from the start and I’ve never once regretted marrying young. In fact, there is a lot I think about in retrospect that led me to […]