What's The Protocol

at what point do you stop counting the months and start counting the years? caylin is 2 now, so i no longer say she’s “25 months”. she’s 2. but i feel like if i stop documenting all of this i’m going to forget all the little things.…

A Lot To Take In, Struggling

i got a text from my dad driving back from jacksonville sunday night after the jaguars game. my grandpa was back in the hospital, and was not doing well. he was diagnosed with stomach cancer a while ago. i actually found out about the stomach cancer the day when we…

All Over The Place

this week has been a complete 180 compared to last week. the plague that is HFMD ended. lucky for me, it ended the night before my red hat training began. no more blisters, no more ulcers, no more fever, no more crippling foot/hand pain, no more messed up face,…

Tables Are Turning! #WomenInTech

i started to write a facebook post when i got home tonight about the Women in Tech event i attended this evening, and then i realized it was worth its own blog post. a few other girls from work and i attended the Women in Tech event tonight at the…

Gonna Be The Speckled Girl In Class

i frequently brag about the fact that caylin has never had more than a runny nose/mild cold. never had a fever that lasted more than a few hours, and we’ve never had an issue with anything really keeping her up at night. to get through the first 2…

2 Incredible Years, Surgery, Recovery, Etc

caylin turned 2 saturday. two. TWO. T – W – O. sweet jesus, WHERE HAS THE TIME GONE. this has been… the wildest, most unexpected 2 years of my life. i’ve said this probably hundreds of times at this point, but being a mom is nothing like i ever imagined or…

The C Word, and 23 Months

of all the things i thought i’d ever write about, this is not one of them. maybe 40-50 years from now, when it would kind of make more sense. but at 28? no. for the last 3-4 weeks, brett has been having weird heart palpitations. they started really the…

22 Months

i suck at this lately. i’ve been heads down most nights working on either stre.am or my DEF CON app (almost done! woo!). the other night i stayed up until 4:30 going through redesigns. i have left myself zero room to relax. again. the last month with…