To say I have been through some trials in my life would be an understatement, yet somehow it is difficult to talk about them without thinking that somewhere, in another place or time, someone else is enduring far worse than I. I almost feel badly about giving in to feelings of hopelessness and despair because…
When I found out I was pregnant with Addison I was overjoyed. I was having a child with a man I loved and it was going to be my fairy tale come true. And then his father left three months into the pregnancy. I was already a single mother to a 10 and 9 year…
This Christmas was an unusual one for my family. Since my father fell ill in October and had to have a quadruple bypass, our original holiday plans changed. This year, we opted to take Christmas to him where normally he would have traveled to Texas and spent Thanksgiving or Christmas here in Texas with my…