It’s “123”

I named this blog “123” because it’s the One Hundredth and Twenty Third Blog!  I am amazed and delighted by all those readers that take the time to read about our life with Anna. I  think about you as I navigate this chosen path of the Warrior.  When feeding pumps go faulty, mornings bring the craziest times of rush and hurriedness, and when I wonder if people get this, I think of you, my faithful readers.  Some of you are walking almost the same path and some of you just like to know and read and I thank you.  

Time is essential in this life.  We only have so much of it.  I truly feel amazed to have lived through the moments that were critical in her life.  Her survival, her rare chromosomal deletion and I hated the word chromosome for the first years, but now it is my friend.  I have been honored and horrified with being her mother and caretaker in general.  But I’m truly over the horrified part, time has taken that feeling away from me.  Or maybe my mindset has fixed it all?  Yes, mindset is everything.  

So with the “1-2-3-” theme, lets’ roll on Warriors.  How about the happiness of the new season coming?  Fall is here! What moments in threes am I looking forward to?  Well, the cozy pajamas that I put on her and tuck her little black curly haired head into her bed is one. Knowing it’s cooler outside but she is warm, dry and protected.  The “2” of the season is Halloween.  I LOVE this holiday.  And I have since I’ve been a kid.  I’m not truly sure what Anna really loves being but she has a lot of Halloween clothes that I add to them each year, so the 2 of the Fall is putting her in those fun festive clothes.  The 3 would then fall into outings inside that make me happy with her.  I can now skate with my shoulder injury since I’m into month 5 almost halfway to completely healed.   I’m looking forward to not only skating with her but swimming at the lazy river, as “inside” events. When I think of the fun things the season brings I can easily get excited for all our outings.  

It’s fun to have a spin on “123” because truly lots of things in the Warrior life are more like a maze than a zippy 123.  It’s all out of order, our different lives.  When you hang in there and persevere and take breaks it can be so fulfilling.  The things you do, the people you meet, the things that inspire you are greater because we know different things.  But we know a good kind of different. It’s our own personal “123!”   

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