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I’m still incredulous, but my little girl is FIVE!! Five years ago, on a very snowy January afternoon, she was my treasured reward for two weeks of prodromal labor and a very difficult pregnancy with undiagnosed chronic illness. We’ve had quite an adventure together in these five years, little love. Snowy was born a month […]

I am a full-time working mom of a five-year-old, and I also deal with multiple chronic illnesses daily. Me working is necessary for our family. Not only that, but I genuinely enjoy the work I do. It is definitely not what I saw myself doing, but two things majorly changed my trajectory: chronic illness and […]

2018 was quite the year for my family. We started knowing we wanted to make a big change but not knowing our direction, and ended our year having moved closer to family and me in a new career that I love. There’s a lot I’m looking forward to in 2019, and one thing that I […]

Seeing animated movies as a family is one of our favorite pastimes. Mr. Snowflake and I have always liked cartoons, and saw many together on dates before Snowy was born. We’ve been taking Snowy to the theater for G and PG animated movies since she was about 3, so for almost two years now. The […]

I have a laundry list of chronic illness conditions, which I regularly write about here as a voice for chronic illness parents. Since I wrote the post about my conditions, I have found out I likely have another, gastroparesis, which is a partial stomach paralysis/delayed stomach emptying that impacts my digestion, causing a lot of […]

I have been sick for most of my life with multiple chronic illnesses. I have received many thoughtful gifts that are mindful of my illnesses, and gifts that are given with my health and its limitations in mind are many of my favorites. Everyone with chronic illness is different, so obviously these gifts won’t work […]

Snowy’s birthday is just a few weeks after Christmas. This year, it’ll be simple to tell everyone what Snowy wants: anything dinosaurs and arts and crafts. I wrote about all sorts of gifts for a dinosaur loving girl this holiday season, but this post focuses solely on dinosaur craft kits because there are so many […]