Category: Family Life

  • Benjamin update 1

    Last night Benjamin was pretty agitated. The nurses are continually surprised about how awake he tends to be at times, even with the sedation. If it were me and I had a tube down my throat and I woke up, I would be pretty mad too. When he sees me, he seems to be pleading…

  • Benjamin

    I thought it would be a good idea to try to keep up a blog with updates on Benjamin. I will keep it up as I can. You may already know that my 13 month old preemie became very sick last week. He is in the pediatric ICU right now at Riley Children’s Hospital. I…

  • Cabin Trip and trip to Indy

    We took a quick trip to Indy last week for a doctor appointment. Since the appointment was at 8am we decided to spend the night there and went to the Old Spaghetti Factory for dinner. If you call ahead, you can sit in their special trolley car. This was right up my toddler, Andrew’s alley!…

  • summer, first day of school, fair and more!!

    Wow! I just realized how behind I am about posting some of my family happenings from the summer! Sorry about that. Too much to do and so little time…so here they are! First up, the Fire station tour that the boys and I went on with a local moms group. My brother is a firefighter,…

  • Planting Apple Trees

    After church yesterday, my husband and 2 boys and I went to buy 2 apple trees! We have wanted to do this for some time since the apple tree that was in our yard when we moved in 3 years ago has never really done well. Apparently you need 2 apple trees to cross pollinate.…