You may have noticed a tiny little name change around here. You see… this new season in life needs a new name that fits where I am now. When I had our surprise, late-in-life, rainbow baby in 2020, I started an Instagram account called wrinklesnrainbows–and honestly I quite love that name. It fits where I am in this season of life… wrinkles because I’m over 45 and rainbows because our …
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Just Me
All the craziness that goes on in my life (and my head) on a daily basis.
Miscarriage, Grieving, and Back to School
Somewhere in the middle of June, a little life began to grow, and for the next eight weeks or so that child was mine to hold and carry. On August 23rd, at eleven and a half weeks along, only hours after our first doctor appointment, we had to make an emergency trip the hospital. We had lost our little baby to miscarriage, and I was hemorrhaging badly. It’s surreal how …
And Baby Makes Six (Midlife Baby on Board)
Do not adjust your computer monitor, your eyes are not playing tricks on you. . . Yes, people, we are indeed expecting another addition to the Oliver family next spring, God willing! Sometime next March our #MidlifeBaby will arrive and we will be starting the parenting journey all over again. Just in case you need a review of the facts: Our 3 kids are 18, 15, and 12-will-be-13-when-the-baby-gets-here. We are …