“As for my girls… I’ll raise them to believe they breathe fire.” ~Jessica Kirkland For Izzy. My 34 week preemie baby girl – who “might always be small and slow, who might have trouble learning, whose development may lag, who will probably be sickly.”For Izzy. On your birthday. My ELEVEN year old baby girl who… Read more

There are some stories worth retelling and others that we have to retell – at least to ourselves – because otherwise we become convinced there is “no way that actually happened!” The story of how our daughter Izzy came into our world is one such story I tell myself every year around this time. She… Read more