I have a thrilling announcement that I've been waiting for months and years to share with you. At long last, after many false starts, it's go time.
Read MoreOur Greatest Fear
On the morning of Friday, July 13th, Tess wakes us up. She does this with a cry, as she often does, but this one is different.
Read MoreMeeting Others Like Tess
We've been waiting for almost Tess's entire life to meet someone like her, to meet a family like ours. And it finally happened.
Read MoreScars
It's part of life, at least for us, that we take Tess to the doctor. A lot. She's generally a pretty healthy gal. Not many sicknesses, like coughs or colds. Just a ton of stuff that we have to figure out. Like why her hips don't work. Or why she hasn't grown an inch in about a year.
Read MoreGetting Totally Schooled
Don't wait. Push for it now.
Read MoreThe Magic Sentence
Pretty much every night these days, after dinner she and I coax the kids into bed. We shake off the evening weariness, the yearning to binge-watch a delightfully mindless season of a TV show, and put on a pot of tea. And we get to work.
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