WOW! This has been a busy month for me. The outpour of support from family and friends has been positively overwhelming as I do what I know I was meant to do: spread awareness and fight to help others who may not be ready to fight for themselves. What started out as me "getting involved" has turned into so much more. I have received many letters from friends and friends-of-friends all telling me their stories of heart break, embarrassment, and shame. One thing we all seem to have in common is apologizing for who we are and who we were meant to be. Yes we were very different as children, but the theme I keep seeing is we were targeted for things that made us who we were. Maybe we were targeted because of sexual orientation, weight- too skinny or over-weight, poor growing up. Things we couldn't always help. Even POSITIVE things made people targets! Good grades, successful in athletics, being picked for homecoming court, or because they wouldn't drink at parties. It&#
Being a parent means loving your children more than you've ever loved yourself. It also means getting used to going to the bathroom & taking a shower with an audience! Welcome to my blog about navigating through parenthood, celebrating the good, coping with the hard, and managing to keep a little bit of yourself through it all! We are the proudest parents to 3 year old Cristiano, and 6 month Ashlynn Grace. She is our NICU grad, brave CP fighter, and mommy's hero.