the girl | the story | the journey
The month leading up to the surgery became a whirlwind of appointments, checking the boxes of the to-do list and preparations that no parent should ever have to face. It also became a month of extreme fighting between her dad and I. It became more about who could be present during the surgery and in […]
MoreWe never had that cup of coffee … We were 24 hours away from surgery and I found myself sitting in the very room we would say what could be our last goodbye to Elizabeth. The three of us were there. There was small talk, we laughed every now and then and did the very […]
MoreI knew that Elizabeth was being lifted in prayer well into the night and I knew that she would have a multitude of family, friends and those we had never met praying for her when the sun hit that beautiful May spring day in the morning. But this last prayer over Elizabeth before she drifted […]
MoreHe would have been 42 today, he has been gone for 19 years. Blonde hair, blue eyes … he was the only sibling I would have. We grew up close, fought like all brothers and sisters do. I remember my dad telling me one afternoon as I had him pinned to the floor “be careful, […]
MoreI can’t remember the day I found out I was adopted, there was no big reveal at a drama filled family meeting around the kitchen table. It was just something I grew up always knowing. Honestly if my parents had never told me I would probably believe I was their own as it has been […]
MoreThe last few days my life has felt very much like our weather here in NWA, cloudy and stormy. Tears have been wept much like the skies have poured the rains down upon us. I have desperately been trying to find my place in this world and I am left asking myself where do I […]
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Life with Elizabeth 