Seventy-one days. HG has been on this earth for 71 days, and for 57 of those days, he has had casts on his legs. After 57 days, I’ve been able to change my son’s diaper…
A Crack in the Armor
This is a closet. It was meant to be HG’s closet. It was HG’s closet. This is where we stored his things as we slowly accumulated them. Diapers, clothes, toys, etc. Then the week before…
Motherhood on Mother’s Day
Motherhood has been my greatest joy and my deepest sorrow. Grief for the child I created in my head while pregnant and immense love for the child that is mine. I spent a long time…
Your First Mother’s Day
To You: So here we are; Mother’s Day 2021. Your first Mother’s Day, as a mother. It’s a bit of an understatement to say today isn’t how you imagined it would be. Hard to have…
What I’ve Learned in the Last Two Months
We have achieved the 2-month threshold! Two months have passed in the blink of an eye, while also feeling like they’ve lasted two years. (Which to be fair is how the last year as a…
Digging Up Parallel Memories
It’s funny how random things can spur and light a dormant memory. It’s the first night back home from our latest trip to Greenville. This time HG is crankier than normal because of his procedure,…
Greene Does Greenville 3: Green on Greene
Well, surprise, surprise! Remember how I said last week we were still a few weeks away from the tenotomy procedure? Whelp, I was wrong! I mean, I wasn’t wrong wrong, I have the card that…
Strength in Siblings
When we found out that we were going to have HG, one of the first concerns that came to mind after all the excitement and happiness was when and how to tell the kids. There…
Greene Does Greenville 2: Electric Boogaloo
As exhausting as it is proving to be, two weeks in and our trips to Greenville, SC are already proving beyond any doubt that they’re worth it! Our second trip to Greenville Shriners proved to…
Dear Harrison Greene
Dear Harrison Greene, Well, son, you’re 1-month-old today. A month that has felt like a year while going by in the blink of an eye. Your Mom and I knew you’d keep us on our…
Greene Does Greenville
Greenville, SC. I can’t say I ever considered Greenville a place to visit, but now it feels like we were always destined to. Once we wrapped our heads around our new conditions and situation with…
The Constant That is BattleBots
Exactly 4 weeks ago, we were in the hospital room at UK Children’s Hospital, the weight of our new reality still sinking in, our son in the NICU, admittedly numb to the world, with BattleBots…