blessed

Lately I’ve felt incredibly blessed and so aware that God is good. More than a decade ago, I first heard a song that really put things into perspective for me: If everything good in my life were to end today, it still wouldn’t change Who God is and how...

three months

Just about everything I do or think or remember has a Tyler-associated experience to go with it. For instance, I get in my car, and there are a million associations: The times he sat behind me in his safety seat, and I would reach back and grab his little foot and...

tyler’s playlist

Someone requested that we share the playlist Tyler created before his last hospitalization. Tyler named it “When I am Weak.” The doctors had told him that the pre-transplant chemo would likely cause him to feel even sicker than his past treatments, and he...

two months

Tuesday marked two months without my beautiful boy on this earth. I’ve mostly avoided looking at my accounts of Tyler’s journey on CaringBridge, but I did go back and re-read the first CaringBridge post I titled “two months.” It was last November,...

mother’s day

The first Mother’s Day I celebrated with Tyler was in 1996. I was only pregnant with Tyler, but my sister thoughtfully sent me a card. I still have it. It reads, “Hi Mom! Even though I haven’t been born yet, I wanted to wish you a happy...