Another Weekend…

Hooray for Saturday!  I love Saturdays for the simple fact that I can sleep in because Drew is home and can get up with the kids.   Only in my recent  sleep deprived state, I often forget what day of the week it is and wake in a panic thinking that we slept past the alarm!  This happened to me this morning when I opened my eyes to Sophie starring  right at me and to...

A little of this and a lot of that

It's been a while since I posted anything about what's been going on at the Marlett house. Part of my blogging absence is due to my chronic fatigue that unfortunately doesn't appear to be going away any time soon. Another reason for my lack of posting is the intense decision making that Drew and I have been doing. I will share with you what we have been contemplating later in this post.We have been...

She's Something Else

In typically Sophie fashion she was pulling out all the stops when it came to going to bed. Tonight she suddenly needed a band-aid for a boo-boo on her ankle that occurred earlier in the day, but then the band-aid kept "faaaallin off". After much debate the band-aid really just made the boo-boo worse, so off it went and low and behold all was better!So I said to her as she was climbing into bed: "Sophie...

And now she's 1

Happy birthday to our sweet little Lucy! Today we spent our day quietly celebrating our baby's first birthday. To her it was like every other day in her life except for one difference, whenever any of the kids came near her today they began to sing a rousing chorus of Happy Birthday directly in her face! By the time it came to dessert and to singing happy birthday to her so that we could blow out...

A Year Ago

A year ago today our entire family of almost six was spending "quality time" together at an extended stay hotel in Eau Claire, Wisconsin anxiously awaiting the day our new baby would make us a family of six! For those of you who are unfamiliar with our birth stories you might find the attached newspaper article that was written about our family helpful :). So much is going through my head tonight...

About Friday...

Thank you to all who have been saying prayers and sending us "good thoughts" about our appointment on Friday. I have needed a couple of days to make sense of everything myself before I could write about it. Even as Lucy's parents it has been difficult understanding what all of the doctors are saying about her, so I will do my best to explain to you what we know and how we understand it.Lucy is showing...

This Week

I am a ball of nerves this week as we are heading to CHOP on Friday for one of those "oh so important" appointments with Lucy's metabolic doctors. I know I have said that I am trying not to put all our proverbial eggs into one appointment, but guess what, that is so much easier said than done! At this appointment we are hoping to get lab results back from the labs that were drawn just before Christmas....

Friday

On Friday we took the family to one of our favorite places, Longwood Gardens. If a picture says a thousands words then these will speak volumes, enjoy! This is about as good as I got on Friday afternoon. It's not easy getting a good picture of the four of them. At first you don't succeed try try again! Obviously, not a good one but this picture says a lot about our afternoon.This has been Lucy's...