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 […]

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….

10 on Tuesday on: a secret, parenting advice from a toddler & getting busted

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-09-21T10:52:41-05:00September 21st, 2010|My Family|

1. Tuesday is now officially the busiest day of the week at our house. I think I’ll start calling it “this day is going to kick my butt Tuesday” for short. Up early, big kids off to school, music class with the duder, trip to People Rx, home for lunch, quick nap for Teagan (I almost always have to wake him up, bummer), leave for carpool to pick up Taryn, back home to fix a quick early dinner and then back out to go watch Ty play football. Then home again, way past the little kids bedtime, spend an hour doing bath, pj’s, supplements and medications, put the little kids down, fix lunches and THEN, it’s time for me to […]

10…back to school edition

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-08-26T21:13:13-05:00August 26th, 2010|Austin Photographer, My Family, Uncategorized|

Man it has been awhile since I posted a 10 on Tuesday. It’s not Tuesday, but I’m awake and have half of my wits about me so here we go….

1. Kindergarten & 7th grade:

Could they be any taller?!?! Time flies. Be sure you click that link, it’s worth it just for the laugh. It gets me every.single.year.

2. As the first week of school is about to come to a close, I have more stories and one liners from Taryn than I can wrap my mind around. Her first day went really well. She was really nervous, but also very excited that morning. All 5 of us actually managed to get […]