Thursday marked the one year anniversary of N’s G-tube surgery. And he’s still 100% dependent on it. So I decided it was finally time to find a spot in my kitchen cabinet for all of his medical feeding supplies. They’ve spent nearly a year on the counter glaring at me. Now they are neatly tucked away in little bins in my cabinet. I went from hoping he would breast feed, to hoping he would bottle feed, to hoping he would eat anything by mouth, to accepting this is the way it i

I feel like I just crossed the finish line. It wasn’t an easy race either. I put in a lot of sweat and tears. I had to walk part of the way. And I got pretty beat up by unexpected hurdles along the winding, rocky trail. It was a LONG week. It’s Friday evening and I just finished up an appointment in my home with yet another case worker. She left me a big binder of more paperwork to do. When I closed the door behind her I truly felt like that marked the end of my marathon week