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12Apr202322May2023

Camp Odayin 2023: Summer Camp (and more!) for Heart Warriors

Tiffany CHD, Heart Mom, MEDICINE, MOM camp odayin, congenital heart defect, heart defect, heart mom, heart warrior 0 Comment

What better way to celebrate spring – start planning summer camps! Nothing makes me happier in the cold winter months than to plan our time during the warm summer sun. With two in college, there is only one teen left at home to plan summer adventures. Top of his request list – Camp Odayin.

WHAT IS CAMP ODAYIN?

I really think my accolades from the Camp Odayin 2019 post I wrote sums up Camp Odayin the best. As a parent who has handed off their child as a newborn to a surgical heart team, the stress level was about the same when deciding if signing him up for a four night sleep-away camp (without access to technology!) would be good for them. Turns out it was one of the best decisions we made.

04Apr202206Apr2022

Number One Birth Defect: Congenital Heart Defect

Tiffany Heart Mom, MEDICINE, MOM, Nursing Decoded CHD, congenital heart defect, heart defect 28 Comments

That title may sound shocking. The truth is that nearly 1 in 100 babies born each day have a congenital heart defect (CHD). Some go unnoticed. Others become apparently within a few days or month of birth. Then there are those that (thankfully) are noticed before birth and require surgery within days of arriving in the world. This week, February 7th – 14th, we are going to highlight on our social media pages areas of all things CHD, but today want to share with your a bit of our heart journey.

12Jul202012Jul2020

Covid-19 Return to Classroom Plans for our College, High School, and Junior High kids

Tiffany MOM, School Mom college, COVID-19, high school, junior high, remote learning, school year 17 Comments

The posts on Facebook say it all. Team “they must go back” and Team “keep them online” keep flooding my feed. School districts are slowly rolling out their plans to return to the classroom with Covid-19, but also giving parents only days to decide between options for the upcoming school year. Seems almost more stressful than Spring Break of 2020, and now with the 2020-2021 school year on the horizon, there are choices to be made. With three boys entering three different schools, we had three choices to make.

05Jul202006Jul2020

Filling a Freezer: Family Farm Beef Purchase

Tiffany MOM, They Need To Eat beef, family farm, farm aid 32 Comments

I have spent decades supporting Farm Aid. I shop farmers’ markets in the summers and, for the most part, keep little processed food in the freezers. However, even with feeding three hungry boys, I had yet to purchase a bulk meat order from a family farm. Over the course of this pandemic of worrying about food shortages and seeing empty shelves at Costco, the time felt right to make the commitment.

24May202026May2020

Pandemic Photo Shoot

Tiffany Everyday Adventures, MEMORIES, School Mom pandemic, porch photo session 27 Comments

These last few months have been weird. There’s school but it’s all online. We work (both essential workers) but once home we’ve nowhere to go. No after school activities. No concerts. No Booster meetings. No shopping. NO HAIRCUTS. Our governor gave the green light for social distancing photo shoots to take place and we (ok, I) jumped at the chance to document this weird time. You should, too. Here’s why…

20Apr202027Mar2022

Class of 2020: Senior Year Quarantined

Tiffany Everyday Adventures, MEMORIES, MOM, School Mom class of 2020, COVID-19, quarantined, senior year 37 Comments

I had *really* high hopes for 2020. January did not start out how I had hoped and really planned for February to pick up the slack. Then March happened. Don’t even get me started on April. Finally, the gut-punch came this past week when the governor announced that students would not return to the classroom this year. This meant my oldest, Class of 2020, would not be returning to his high school as a student.

29Mar202031Mar2020

Distance Learning Begins

Tiffany MOM, School Mom COVID-19, electronic school, homeschool, pandemic 18 Comments

Tomorrow our spring break is “officially” over. Normally there is a mix of “I can’t wait to go back & see my friends” to the “I don’t want homework again”. This year is different. No one is going back to school. School is coming to our kitchen table and desktops.

23Feb202023Feb2020

Shutterfly Photo Storage for Mobile Uploads

Tiffany Creative Side, Girls Only, MOM, Organized Mom iphone, pictures, shutterfly, storage, uploads 41 Comments

I have over 649 photos on my iPhone (I know, not an earthshattering number, but it’s a lot for me!). I am always afraid I am going to lose my favorite photos. I also hate just “dumping” the photos on to a “cloud”. While I take a lot of photos, but I don’t need to save ALL of them. With over 40k photos on my laptop and more on the phone, how do I save the ones I want?

20Dec201905Apr2022

Instant Pot Egg Bites

Tiffany MOM, They Need To Eat breakfast, egg bites, instant pot 18 Comments

I have the worst sweet tooth in the morning. My go-to breakfast is usually something sugar-based such as a donut, coffee cake, muffin, waffles, french toast…..yum! There are also times that savory is the way I want to start my day and my weakness is egg-bites. At almost five bucks a pop for this on-the-go breakfast, I don’t indulge very often. Then I realized I could make these at home…