Grab a coffee (or cocktail) this one’s a long one, but there’s a lot to talk about. I have been advocating for my kids’ health since the moment they came screaming into this world. You are their voice. Their translator. Their unpaid medical case manager. Their insurance negotiator. Their Google-certified, self-appointed MD. And sometimes… they're absolute pain-in-the-ass when doctors don’t give answers. In 2023, at a routine yearly checkup, our oldest, Tucker, had a heart mur

This blog exists because I need somewhere to put the chaos—parenting, injuries, fear, laughter, grief, and everything in between. Life feels loud right now, and this is where I’m setting it down. I grew up in the rolling hills of Vermont and moved to Colorado at 18 for college. I followed in my mother and one of my brothers' footsteps to Durango. I moved across the country in hopes of finding myself and who I wanted to be as a person. Somewhere between the mountains of Colora