Today.

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-10-15T11:43:03-05:00October 15th, 2010|My Family|

Today is “Teagan is asthma free day”

And I want to shout it from the roof tops.

And dance.

And cry tears of joy.

And celebrate.

We kicked asthma’s ass.

All the way to the curb.

We sent something life threatening out of our house, away from our child.

He can breath.

All the time. Not just sometimes.

He’s stronger.

His future is brighter.

His parents worry less.

No more panic.

No more coughing fits in the middle of the night.

No more steamy showers to open his airways.

No more avoiding triggers.

And we no longer deal with breathing treatments.

Or co-pays.

Or the ER, urgent care, countless doctor visits.

We will soon run errands without a rescue inhaler.

We will unplug the nebulizer and remove it from our living room.

And just now, I trashed the crap we’ve had to […]

10 on Tuesday

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-10-11T23:10:11-05:00October 11th, 2010|My Family|

1. I woke up to a rude awakening of toddlers yelling directly into the monitor over who called who stupid at 5:03 am. Maybe room sharing was a total dream…..sigh. For the record, it was the duder. We’re working on ridding his vocabulary of the word “doo-pid” and it makes me crazy. I don’t like that word at all. It went something like this:

Taryn: MAAAAAWWWWM! Teagan called me stupid!!
Teagan: No I didn’t!
Taryn: Yes you did Teagan!
Teagan: No I didn’t! Doo-Pid.

5:03 am. Sigh.

2. I made homemade, from scratch, banana bread on Monday with the kids only to leave it in the oven too long and burn it. It smelled soooooo good. And it was in the shape of little pumpkins. […]

sleep over

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-10-10T20:00:41-05:00October 10th, 2010|Austin Photographer, My Family|

These two have been inseperable here lately. I love it. It makes my mommy heart sing. We’ve earned that the hard way. Taryn genuinely wants to be with him all the time, play with him, love him. I can’t blame her one bit. Anyway, these two have been asking for weeks if they could have a “sleep over” together. Tonight turned out to be the perfect night for it…no school tomorrow, I don’t have a session at the crack of dawn, no one has to get up early (although they probably still will…sigh) and Ty is staying the night with a buddy which means they won’t wake him up if […]

my girl

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-10-09T12:03:04-05:00October 9th, 2010|My Family|

I had the morning off today and since the kids woke up pre crack of dawn (yuck!), I decided to take T out for a little sunrise session. I desperately wanted to photograph her in front of the purple flowers again that show up in our neighborhood every fall. But last year, she was just so sick. We were dealing with bout after bout of strep and couldn’t keep her well, not to mention the fact that she broke her arm. She had surgery to remove her adenoids and tonsils along with a lot of scar tissue last mid-October and it took weeks for her to recover. Fall was tough. But this fall, this fall, we are embracing […]

now i can breathe….

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-09-27T21:34:30-05:00September 27th, 2010|My Family|

go here. and most definitely go here.

i see three angels: my baby, the amazing woman who helped us save him and my wonderful friend behind the camera who helped us celebrate.

i can’t stop crying….but now i can breathe….

finding our new normal

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-09-26T08:41:35-05:00September 26th, 2010|Announcements, My Family|

I honestly never thought there would be a day that this blog wouldn’t be the only blog I’d ever want and need. I’ve always poured my heart and our life and days into it along with my business. I’ve never regretted that, not once. I am who I am and I’ve been blessed immensely by blogging. I’ve met wonderful people, made lifelong friends, laughed, cried, documented, shared, and carved out my little space of the web for the sake of my children, my husband and myself. Why? So that we can remember.

And then Teagan got sick. And our days were painful and long and we were in crisis mode. And I couldn’t blog about it. I hated that I couldn’t, […]