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Overwhelming Week and Productive Saturday

Well, if you didn't know who I was before you probably do by now. This week began with a phone call Sunday night that would quarantine my kids for the next 2.5 weeks. My kids were exposed to measles at the PCH clinic last week. Which means in order to protect the rest of the world we will be keeping the kids contained until February 11th. I want to go on record to say for my interview with CNN I wish I had said things a little differently. I don't want to ever say things as harshly as I did on CNN. I do wish that the people who exposed my kids would have used better judgment and stayed home until after recently visiting measles capital of the world but they didn't and I didn't think to temper my words. So here goes...the truth...I've never let myself explore my honest opinion about vaccines. My husband is a pediatrician and I pick my battles in my marriage and that is one I wasn't willing to explore. I feared researching and not liking what I found then havi

Upcoming Posts

Well, here I go again. I've been awful with this blog. I have many many reasons, good reasons, mind you for not keeping up with it. However; I'd like to write more and I think having this blog as a sort of accountability for keeping up certain things in my life. I'd like to think of it as a sort of online journal if you will. I'm in a phase of life right now where I think the accountability of remembering to write and also the release of feelings good or bad would be therapeutic. I will continue to write about the kids at least monthly if not more. I also want to journal Maggie's journey through her momma's eyes. I'm getting ready to start my spring garden. I'm making it a personal goal to continue to learn to sew and craft so I'm trying to do one project per month. I also would like to be brutally honest about some of my goals for myself personally and see if I can improve in some areas. I've also started the long, informative and tedious ad