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August has always been a strange month for me. When I was younger, August marked the end of summer. A time when school was going to start back up and summer fun was going to come to a screeching halt. As I got older it still mark an end, but in much more real ways. [...]

Aidan turned 7 this week and we’ve been in a state of celebration. My how time flies. It feels like just yesterday when we were in the stressful throws of an emergency C-section after a series of scary heart decelerations. As it turns out, he was  Aidan, 4 days oldsqueezing his own umbilical cord in [...]

My niece turned 12 last week, so today the family gathered for a birthday bash. We ate noodles, salad, and cake. We laughed, we cried, and we took some pictures. One couldn’t ask for more…