I cried before I went to work on Saturday. Not because I don’t like my job. I love my job. I get to meet cool people and help them make cool projects. And I really like everyone I work with. Plus, I’m a fan of the company in general. The problem is, my heart is [...]

My church does VBS every year during Spring Break. It creates a place for parents to bring their kids when they don’t have other childcare for the week. This past spring, I took Elisebeth to VBS and on the couple days in the week when I didn’t work, I helped out. At the end of [...]

So, up until Nathan’s diagnosis, I had absolutely no idea what a thyroid did. Now, I’m not quite sure what it doesn’t do. It’s got a finger in everything. Brain development, growth, body temperature, metabolism, digestion. If your body does it, the thyroid and pituitary probably have a hand in it.  For example, take a [...]

This one will be pretty short, but it’s pretty much good news so it’s okay (Plus, I don’t have a bunch of stuff to explain in order for it to make sense). Nathan’s most recent visit to the endocrinologist went wonderfully. His hormone levels are normal, so we’re keeping his medication at their current levels. [...]

After a year of seeing a therapist, I started out 2010 feeling pretty good. But there was one thing that bugged me. Shortly after Elisebeth was born, I’d pretty much lost interest in our weekly roleplaying game. I’d try to stop going altogether, but my husband really wanted me to be a part of it. [...]

My baby boy was born without a thyroid. In Kansas (and, I assume, other states, too), they perform a newborn screening. They take blood and test for certain conditions. One of those conditions is hypothyroidism, which affects about 1 in 4000 babies. Which seems like a lot of babies, but that’s the statistic, and I’m [...]

In the weeks leading up to the birth of my baby boy, I began having contractions. This was a new and novel experience for me, because I’d never had any with Elisebeth (that I felt) before I was being induced. And even then, it was the middle of my 13-hour induction before I actually felt [...]

My daughter, who is two and a half, learns something new every day. Usually, it’s the alphabet or practicing at counting (which she’s doing really good at). Sometimes, it’s colors or shapes. But she’s at an age where it’s easy to learn something every day, because there’s still so much for her to learn. But, [...]

I’ve been working on revisions of my 2007 NaNovel in anticipation of this years Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Last year, I didn’t know about it until a week before the submission period, so my entry was incredibly rushed. This year, I’ll still be a little rushed, but only because they’re holding the competition earlier in [...]

So, for anyone that doesn’t already know (and I don’t exactly hide it), I plan to homeschool my children. This was something I decided even before I planned to have children, based on my public school experiences. Since I moved around a lot, I went from school to school, and while I think I turned [...]