Musings of a Marfan Mom

July 3, 2012
by marfmom
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Farmers’ Market

I was itching to get out of the house yesterday and for once, M didn’t want to go to the library. It took awhile to think up something to do, but I remembered a farmers’ market that my father-in-law had recommended when we first moved back to Ohio. I loooove farmers’ markets!

On the way there, M started feeling me out. “So…I have an idea. Maybe I can get a tweet dere Mommy. Yaaah, maybe I can get a tweet!”

“Maybe…what kind of treat would you want?” I fully expected him to say cookies but nope! He wanted cherries. Yay for a “tweet” Mommy can get behind!

We had one little hiccup at the beginning with M being upset he couldn’t sit in the cart, but luckily cherries were the first thing by the front door (yes…the farmers’ market was set up like a grocery store, interestingly enough). The cherries. Were. Huge! In fact, most of the produce looked amazing…it was hard to choose what to get for lunch!

farmers' market lunch

Our bounty

Overall it was a fun outing and the boys and I will definitely be back. Added benefit? Baby J was willing to eat some of the food, which is always a bonus! 🙂
Toddler eating lunch
Preschooler eating lunch

July 2, 2012
by marfmom
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New Blog Sections!

Please bear with me, I know I didn’t really post last week and this week may be a bit short on posts as well. We’ve had a lot going on, not all of which I can blog about unfortunately.

But, on the upside, I’m excited to introduce some new sections of the blog! If you look up top, you’ll now see a section for birth/surrogacy/adoption stories, a section for diagnosis stories, and a section for celebration of life stories (posts about loved ones who have lost their lives due to Marfan or a related disorder). I want to make it easier for people visiting this site to find the Marfan and related disorder information that they need.

As always, I welcome guest posts by people with Marfan syndrome & related disorders and their families. I would like to add a surgery stories section as well, so I’m particularly looking for posts in that vein, as well as surrogacy and adoption posts (where one or both parents is affected by Marfan & therefore decided to use a surrogate or adopt).

Any topics that I’m missing and should definitely be including?