You did it. Take a deep breath. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined”-Henry David Thoreau As you walk across the stage in your over-flowing graduation gown, ribbons hanging loosely around your neck to grab that diploma (or rather empty…
The Lucky Few: Finding God’s Best in the Most Unlikely Places by Heather Avis Published by Zondervan (March 21, 2017) Pages: 224 Format: Paperback, Kindle, Audiobook Source: Buy on Amazon About the Book: (Amazon) These are the faces that call me “mom,” the three children who made me a mother. When I started my…
On May 20th, my husband and I will celebrate 7 years of marriage. It’s safe to say that we have been through and seen a lot these past 7 year of marriage, yet we continue to persevere. We’ve witnessed friends go through hard times which have ended their…
I cannot even put into words the amount of emotions associated with raising a deaf child. There is fear, there is hope, there is grief, there is sadness, there is joy and there is so much unknowns. If you have been following Beckett’s Journey to Hearing, you already…
The past couple of weeks I have been doing the Ketogenic diet. The Keto diet is a high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carb diet that has historically been used to burn fats than carbohydrates. Not only have I lost a few pounds, but I feel better. The lack of processed and…
Happy Birthday! 40 Years. 14,600 Days. 350,400 Hours. 21,024,000 Minutes. That is how long you have graced this planet. And I’ve only had 3,540 of those days. You’re trying to check my math, huh? Don’t waste your time 🙂 Don’t look at this day as a sign that…
My deaf son is only 6 months, but I can tell you that I have learned a ton about raising a deaf child in a very short time frame. I won’t sit here and say I know it all, because I certainly don’t, but I’m learning more and…
To my son on your 4th Birthday, You made me a mom. It’s been one of the biggest highlights of my life. I am a better person because of you. You’ve helped me function better on little sleep, and you’ve helped me realize what’s truly important in life….
As a parent of a deaf child, there were certainly signs of hearing loss I noticed before he was officially diagnosed with it. He initially failed one side of his newborn screen when he was born, but he was also quite sick and the doctors shrugged it off…