I know I’ve mentioned the meaning of Reagan’s name before, but it’s worth mentioning again. Reagan means “little king” but some translations have it meaning “noble” and her middle name, Elle, means girl. She is quite the noble girl. Picking a name and meaning we liked was super important to Rob and I. I had […]

Rob and I take about 3-4 walks a day with Reagan around the big pond at the Arnold/Winnie Palmer hospital complex. During the last hospital stay I remember telling Rob, “It would stink to be one of those families who walks around this pond as the outing of the day…I don’t want to be that […]

Last night was the first night of Reagan’s life that Rob and I slept under a separate roof than our daughter. I feel guilty and terrible, but Rob and I needed some sleep and the Ronald McDonald House had a room for us to do just that. I woke up at 5 a.m. angry and […]

I opened my blog to write a new update and had an update I had started previously about having Reagan home and how wonderful it was to watch her play and laugh and walk around. Unfortunately, that’s not the blog I’m posting. On Tuesday evening around 6:40 p.m. we had finished feeding Reagan and were […]

Being in the hospital for eight days with my daughter has taught me a lot of things. I really don’t know how to begin this post, but as I write this on the sixth night of being in the hospital, I can tell you that we are ready to go home. With Reagan’s condition, Glutaric […]

Reagan received a pretty sweet wooden xylophone toy for Christmas that her Auntie Melissa brought back from her trip to Germany last year. It’s taken a while to teach Reagan not to put the wooden drum stick in her mouth…she still does it, but today…TODAY she used it to play the xylophone. And as clear […]

The other day I decided to look at Reagan’s adoption video…with her birthday coming up, I think I was getting sentimental about the day she was born and wanted to relive those first few moments. I was shocked that in just a year, almost 20,000 people have viewed it. Before the adoption video, I did […]

As Reagan’s first birthday approaches, I have so much to reflect on over this past year. Looking back, I don’t know how we did it. She has never been sick, even though I was sick for about a month, and Rob somehow had a fever for a brief moment. We’ve figured out her food, even […]

Last year at this time, it was my office’s annual awards meeting. Our office votes on things like best negotiator, most inspirational, etc. And then my broker David rattles off the top 25 agents in the office (we have about 90). If you’re like me, you LOVE awards…my office awards are all proudly framed and […]

In October, I decided that during the month of November I would do a 30-day fast from social media. I felt that it was important for me to put the phone down, close the constantly open Facebook tab on my laptop and just let my mind breath from all that is social media. After a […]