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A Tribute To The One and Only Grans
A Year Already Here we are at the one-year mark since my grandma’s passing. You know how it is after you lose someone you are so close to; the time goes so slow but somehow extremely fast at the same time. My grandma played an important role in my upbringing, and if you’ve followed my […]
December 6, 2018
At 3:15 a.m. on December 6th, 2018 the earth stood still. My one and only confidant on this Earth, my grandma, drew her last breath. I was asleep and my phone was buzzing on my nightstand next to me but I didn’t hear it. I was awoken instead by my husband, who had just gotten home […]
Strength Comes In Small Packages
My Aunt Every once in awhile, if we are lucky, we get to encounter someone in this life that defies the odds and is the definition of strength and bravery. Not only has this person been a great source of inspiration for me, but she has also genuinely guided me through some of the hardest […]
The Day I Let God Work It Out
I was petrified of being put to sleep. Other than 2 cesarean sections in which I was awake, I had made it 37 years without having anything with my body go wrong to where I needed surgery. Then I hit a roadblock and there was no getting out of this one. A reoccurring cyst that […]
Sunday Night Syndrome is Real
The end of the weekend comes crashing down like a wave consuming you, not letting you up for air. Time to focus. Time to get your head back in the game. Finishing the laundry, meal plan, lunches to be packed, dinner to be thawed, backpacks to pack and itineraries to line out. But it is […]
An Open Letter to my Grandma
Dear grandma, It has been 11 long months here without you. Sometimes I miss you so bad it is unbearable, and most times it is all still so unbelievable to me that you are gone. Every day that passes is another day farther away from you I get. I cringed when it turned 2019 knowing […]
