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ly 2 blog archive blog archive september 1 august 1 june 1 may 2 april 1 march 2 february 4 january 3 october 1 august 1 july 2 june 4 may 2 april 5 march 6 february 3 january 8 december 8 november 7 october 6 september 6 august 11 july 9 june 11 may 9 april 7 march 12 february 9 january 9 december 8 november 8 october 9 september 7 august 7 july 9 june 11 may 10 april 11 march 13 february 12 january 10 december 12 november 8 october 15 september 11 august 13 july 10 june 13 may 14 april 14 march 13 february 13 january 15 december 15 november 14 october 16 september 18 august 19 july 19 june 17 may 19 april 15 march 20 february 18 january 22 december 18 november 19 october 20 september 14 august 18 july 18 june 18 may 21 april 17 march 21 february 20 january 21 december 19 november 22 october 21 september 20 august 23 july 21 june 20 may 20 april 21 march 23 february 13 january 10 labels amazon chicago christmas christmas list cincinnati crafts cuteness diy decorations design fashion floyd floyd s friends food fridays with floyd friends giveaway lists meal plan mister mister and missy pw pinterest products recipes target treats wilw wiww weekend wrap up anniversary birthday blate blog design blog friends blogiversary bourbon camera daily life elf fall family guest post hair house love makeup random shopping travel wine search this blog 2017 reading challenge sarah has not entered the 2017 reading challenge sep 14 2018 grant s gifts i have a passion project that i ve been working on for a few months and i am nervous but ready and so excited to launch it into the world i mentioned a while ago i was working on something and that was taking away from my time in this space well and chasing a nearly 2 year old toddler and now i am ready to share the big launch of this project isn t until tomorrow but because of the love and support our family has always had through the blog i wanted to share this with you prior to the official launch event without further adieu drum roll i present to you the mission of grant s gifts is to provide love and support to nicu graduate families primarily in the form of donations of preemie clothes many of you remember our nicu journey and because of that unexpected but beautiful journey the idea of this project formed i vividly recall the day i walked into the nicu and grant was wearing a onesie we had been so wrapped up in the craziness of what was going on the option of him being able to wear clothes had not even dawned on us i immediately started crying seeing him wearing a onesie that one small soft piece of cotton meant the world to me it gave me the sense of some sort of normalcy within a world that was anything but normal or expected you can refer to my post here where i talk about a lot of very similar things as soon as i gathered myself i called mister and asked him to run out and find buy him preemie clothes for our little man mister set off for buy buy baby and sadly only found one very very small section of preemie clothes he was able to find a package of plain white shirts that snapped on the side i was in disbelief that there were so few preemie options the next chance i had i ventured to target to see what their selection was it was the same story but they had even less options now i was beginning to get upset i fully understood that retailers sell many more 0 3 and newborn clothes than preemie but i still felt like it was unfair for there to be so few options if any now that grant could wear actual clothes rather than just a tiny preemie diaper i wanted to find him some clothes asap i had ours moms and others on missions about town looking for preemie clothes we were slowly able to gather some wash them quickly and take them down to the nicu i would be lying if i said arriving at the nicu and being able to change grant s clothes each day wasn t one of the highlights of my day the amount of support we had during and after our nicu stay was amazing one day in particular will stay with me probably forever friends of ours offered to bring over dinner i m talking a full spread lasagna bread salad the works but what was even better than the lasagna which was amazing was the fact that she found and washed a preemie outfit for us i was blown away by their thoughtfulness it meant the world to us that grant had a brand new outfit to take the next day that was already washed and smelled amazing the fact is while there is a lot of sitting around and cuddling your new one nicu families are very busy and when they re not busy they better be sleeping this made the search for preemie clothes even more difficult generally when you have a preemie you are not expecting to have a preemie therefore preemie clothes are generally not on those new mom checklists and for me and i am sure many other moms gone was the idea of the going home outfit i had lovingly picked out for grant he wasn t able to wear that outfit until he was almost 3 months old you may think there is not a huge difference between a newborn onesie and a preemie onesie but there is a world of difference even outfits that are 0 7lbs were too big on grant the frustration of not being able to clothe your child was real in our world we always said the nicu is not really a world you think or know much about until you are thrown into it about a year ago this all hit home once again jen reached out to me that her little man had arrived a few weeks early just like grant and she was looking for suggestions on where to buy preemie clothes knowing the difficultly of finding them and and wanting to help i immediately boxed up grant s clothes to send to her to borrow along with that i wanted to send a new outfit as well off to target i went and they had two options boy and girl this caused me to get aggravated all over again and have flashbacks of our journey not so long ago this sparked a fire in me i came home and told mister this shouldn t be this big of a problem in short i want to put preemie clothes into the hands of nicu preemie families so they can experience the same joy and normalcy we did seeing grant in clothes i want to relieve a tiny bit of stress that those families are going through i want them to have a special outfit for photo day i want them to have an outfit they remember their baby wearing on the day the graduated from the nicu and were able to go home that is the long story short of how grant s gifts came to be after this idea was born i was introduced to an amazing cincinnati based non profit called vivian s victory whose passion is also to help nicu families i am elated and honored to be working under them as a program collecting and donating preemie clothes to families in the nicu head on over to grant s gifts to learn more if you would like to donate you can text grantsgifts to 71777 or clothes can be mailed to the address on the site fyi there are still a few tweaks happening to the site if anything looks off we are working on it the official donation page is still having some kinks worked out so at this time texting may be the easiest option i ll update the post once the kinks are worked out i always make it a habit to check the sale clearance rack at any store i am visiting to see if they have preemie items some favorites are target wal mart carters old navy gap and meijer i would love if that was something you incorporated into your shopping trips as well thank you as always for your love and support follow grant s gifts on instagram here and facebook here posted by sarah at 8 00 am 19 comments labels grant s gifts life mom life nicu nicu needs aug 24 2018 snoozin in the clouds i really hate breaking my blog silence with this post but it has been on my heart to share with floyd s fans friends and family that he crossed over the rainbow bridge 4 weeks ago i announced this on instagram shortly after it happened but sharing it here has taken some time to come around to we have met connected and began so many friendships who ve turned into family from this blog and solely because of floyd our family is honored to know that floyd brought smiles happiness and laughter all across the world because of the blog and the joy he brought floyd brought to our family is immeasurable mister and i brought floyd home with us when he was 6 weeks old from that day he was a constant in our life always there always sassing around always snoozin as you can imagine and anyone with dogs knows once they are in your life you just expect them to be there always i won t lie i still look for floyd expect him to be sitting at the front door window and to come slinking around the corner we miss him constantly about a month before floyd passed away we had been at the vet for his yearly check up everything checked out okay except our vet told us she could detect a heart murmur in him we had noticed that floyd had been slower and seemed to be getting hotter on walks even when it wasn t too hot out however we knew his dramatic personality and simply getting older we didn t think too much of it once we knew he had the murmur we scaled back the walks waited until it was cooler and kept an eye on him the day before he passed away he began to act off and a little weird that morning he wouldn t come in from outside even for a piece of grilled chicken we knew something was off then that evening he seemed slower and a little out of sorts he would just stand in one spot for a few moments and then move on i sat on the floor with him and we snuggled in a blanket i quickly noticed his chunky paws were cold his paws were always very warm so this was concerning i also checked his gums and they were pretty pale while feverishly texting my favorite dog experts and floyd s favorite aunts kait and casey i called the doggie urgent care and they said we could bring him in or wait until morning and take him to our vet thankfully seriously our vet had an opening come available that morning and she was able to get him in right away side note we love our vet and even more so now with how she helped us handle this situation i went over his symptoms and recent behavior and she decided to do an ultrasound to see if he had a blockage she quickly came back and told me that she found a tumor in his spleen as well as lots of blood on his abdomen she showed me a very full vile of blood she had taken from him in the short time he was getting an ultrasound she said the tumor had began to burst and was trying to get blood from other areas of his body hence the slowly down i quickly while sobbing called mister and he came to the vet right away after that we talked through the situation with our vet she explained that there was a very good chance the tumor was cancerous and even if they were able to remove it the cancer would most likely come back within 6 months she also advised that there was a good chance he would need a blood transfusion and he may not survive that and even it wasn t cancer again he would likely need a transfusion and there could also be other tumors in his body that were cancerous this news the heart murmur his age his anxiety issues which had gotten a lot worse in the past couple of years we made the hardest decision of our lives i imagine no one that has ever been in that position feels like it s easy but we knew it was the best decision for him we did not want to suffer to be in pain and to be released of his anxiety floyd was the best bubba to us and so so so loved by so many but no one harder than mister and i we still miss him and talk about him and in his voice every day we try to comfort ourselves knowing he is snoozin in the sun all he wants eating all the peanut butter he wants and getting alllll the belly rubs living his best life the grief comes in waves but we are doing our best to get through it it is extremely hard to get used to how quiet our house is without him sans that almost 2 year old we have thank you to all of you for your wonderful messages prayers and stories of remembering floyd we are so grateful for all of his fans and the love the blog world has always shown us posted by sarah at 3 55 pm 11 comments labels family floyd life jun 6 2018 currently june i am so pleased to be co hosting with anne this month for currently i love having these posts to look back on to see what we did during the months i have been slacking on blogging but i love to at least have these posts to reflect back on first up traveling i recently returned from a girls trip to clearwater fl we had an absolute blast we all met in college and have been friends for 15 years the trip was a perfect mix of beach wine lots of girl talk and just good ol relaxing also can we just get an applause for getting multiple good group shots not easy with 9 people grilling we grill out the majority of the time in the summer one we love it and two it gets me out of cooking every meal mister is the grill master in our house i am pretty sure we could eat burgers from the grill every single night if we have the time we will use the charcoal and it is so yummy we love to experiment with various seasonings and versions of burgers i would love to try grilled pizza but it is slightly intimidating exploring unless lm is sleeping there is not a moment we aren t exploring he is incredibly busy and curious he loves to be outchide looking and picking up all the rocks sticks and dandelions if you visit our yard you will find piles of rocks all of the place we really love to watch him wander around the yard exploring every inch we are also trying to explore more of cincinnati and things to do as a family while enjoying our summer so far we ve hit up the zoo and multiple parks planting we have a local nursery that we absolutely love they are incredibly friendly and the prices are great it s really hard to beat last weekend we made a big trip and picked up veggies herbs and flowers to plant mister and i really enjoy being in the yard and experimenting with various plants a few years ago i picked up this raised bed for the patio and it always does well this year i planted rosemary cilantro basil cherry tomatoes peppers lavender keeps mosquitoes away and melons i also picked out a few flowers for a big planter i love to deck out playing we are obviously always playing with lm he really loves rocks his food truck and reading books we also played some fun games on my girls trip we tried out monikers and last word and they were both really fun they would be great for a group weekend away and that s what we ve been up to what is currently going on in your world join the link up here an inlinkz link up posted by sarah at 8 00 am 28 comments labels currently daily life life may 21 2018 weekend wrap up no plans i haven t done one of these in a while and the irony is we didn t have anything planned this weekend worth even reporting on but we had a lot of quality family fun time and there are always good pictures to go along with that friday we had a little play time after lm s dinner and off to bed for him frida...