That’s right. I played a trick on some of you. Not a mean trick but a trick nonetheless. We have been gone since last week. I scheduled all of my posts ahead of time so that crazy local internet stalkers who might rob our house or try to kidnap us no one would know we [...]
Carsten’s first year and our experience with finding out about his dwarfism…
March 1, 2010 By
I was twenty-one when I was pregnant with Carsten. Just a few days after his dad and I got married I had an ultrasound and that is when the doctor told me the measurements were irregular. His femur, tibia, humerus, and ulna (arms and leg bones) all measured several weeks behind. My obstetrician immediately suspected [...]
Carsten got a full paid scholarship to the LPA conference!!
June 26, 2009 By
Oh my word! That’s all I could say the day I opened the email. I had to forward it to my husband because I couldn’t read it without crying. I don’t talk much about Caran’s condition here on my blog partly because we really don’t know much about it, in fact we only have an [...]
The Difference A Few Words Can Make…
January 12, 2009 By
Kind words are short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. ~ Mother Theresa “Mom, those people are looking at me.” Carsten looked up at me with those pouty puppy dog eyes and a shy frown on his little face. You never get used to the stares. It is understandable really. Even [...]
Celebration of Life
January 16, 2008 By
I was pregnant for my former husband before we were married. We set a date for the wedding, said our “I do”s and two weeks after we returned from our weekend getaway I went for a check up with my obstetrician. I was then told that after reviewing my previous ultrasounds they had discovered that [...]
