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09/02/2026

Levi’s tube is just part of our everyday routine. Every morning, we clean it, hook up his feed, and move on with our day – kind of like brushing teeth or packing a lunch.

Blending Levi’s feeds has simply become another one of the ways I care for him. It’s just a normal part of being his mom. If you told me 3 years ago that tube feeding would become one of the most ordinary parts of our day, I wouldn’t have believed you.

That’s why this partnership with Compleat® feels so important to me. Thank you Compleat® for supporting Tubies like Levi with real food ingredient tube feeding formulas & all of the resources you share to educate the public on tube feeding.

They even have resources on their site if you’re a tube feeding family curious about starting home blends! Check out the full song and add your own verse at compleat.com/WhatIsBetterThanHow! Use Compleat® Under Medical Supervision

08/13/2026

I can’t believe it’s been a full year of home blends! I’m so excited to be teaming up with Compleat® to spread awareness about tube feeding and how incredible, life-saving and NORMAL it can be!

As a dietitian and now a medical mom of a Tubie, it has been kind of wild to see my worlds collide like this over the past 3 years. Even with my background as an RD, I was not at all prepared to have a child with a G-tube.

At first it felt so overwhelming and scary, and we hoped it would be a short-term solution. Now I have fully accepted the Tubie life and I’m grateful everyday that we are able to guarantee his nutrition and hydration to help him grow and thrive, not only to power through therapies, but just for everyday life and to feel his best.

Compleat® has their own tube feeding formulas that offer wholesome, real food ingredients. They are also true allies in the tube feeding community, and here to champion anyone on this journey – whether you’re utilizing their whole food formulas, dipping your toe in home blends, or a combination of the two.

Thank you for being here and supporting us on this journey and for your desire to learn and teach your own kiddos about kids like Levi! Questions? Let me know below! Watch the full video online at compleat.com/WhatIsBetterThanHow! *Use Compleat® Under Medical Supervision Compleat

07/18/2026

would I love it if Levi could talk? yes. does my heart ache a little knowing he may never just blurt out "I love you mama" the way his big brother does? yes.
do I also know that love doesn't require words? absolutely. we have learned so much about nonverbal communication and Levi is constantly communicating with us in other ways. we can tell when he's happy or sad or excited. unfortunately crying is still one big way that he communicates but hey- he's telling us what he wants or needs that way!
I'm hopeful that one day we can use an AAC or eye gaze or something to help him communicate even clearer with us.
grateful for his smiles and laughs and sounds and for all that he teaches us every day
| disability parenting | cerebral palsy | dystonia | hope for
HIE | hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy | disability parenting

08/20/2025

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my mom, the best nana, and one of my very best friends 🥹🎉

I am fully aware of how lucky I am to have my mom just 12 minutes up the road, always willing to drop everything to be there for me and my family, especially my boys.

When Levi was hospitalized in Saint Louis for 3 full weeks? She stayed with me the whole time. When he did a 3-week intensive in Colorado (overlapping with her bday), she never left. If Ethan goes out of town, she stays the night to help and make sure I’m not alone. If anything ever happens where we need quick help, we can count on her to be there, within minutes, no questions asked.

To know my mom is to love her. She’s kind, genuine, generous, loving, and full of life. Her laugh is contagious and she loves her people so well. There’s a reason she has so many circles of friends and a full social calendar during retirement.

I could go on and on about how amazing she is and how thankful I am for her strong presence in my life. Idk how I got so lucky but I’m so happy to call my mom one of my very best friends. I truly don’t know what I’d do without her.

I hope your day (week/month) is full of weak coffee (lol), sweet treats, paddle boarding, family time and laughs.

Happy birthday mama, I love you so so much 💕🫶🏼

08/14/2025

I have genuinely enjoyed seeing all of the back-to-school photos everyone has been posting this week 🥹 it gave me ALL the feels because that will be us sending Rhett off to kindergarten next year — thank god cuz I’m not ready 😭

This week Rhett just moved up to a *big boy pre-K* classroom at daycare, so not a massive change for us quite yet!

but as I was scrolling through the photos, I couldn’t help but notice that some people went ALL out - which is amazing and so so fun!!!! - but also made me think about the moms who didn’t maybe feeling guilty about not doing “enough”.

I’m talking to the mom who didn’t have the bandwidth to think about getting a first day of school sign. or the the families who couldn’t afford to go back to school shopping. or the ones who have one child in the hospital and they’re juggling multiple kids & work & all of the other things that life brings. or any other similar situations where maybe back to school snuck up on you and you weren’t able to make it feel like a big, exciting special occasion.

if any of those describe you, I hope you know that you are STILL a great mom. your child doesn’t need fancy signs or balloons or brand new shoes to feel loved. if you told them you loved them before the first day of school, they are lucky. 🫶🏼🤍

ps: this is also NO SHAME to those who did go all out!!!! I sometimes wish I was that kind of mom 😆 I love that you could make it feel so big and exciting for your little one AND for you- sending them off is a huge deal as a parent, too 🥹

08/13/2025

sooo chat GPT convinced me that I need this black & white gallery wall to happen, but I need help narrowing down the pics 🙈 I’m thinking two rows of four, so 8 photos total, but I could be convinced to do 10 😂

the ones that aren’t labeled are from one of our many Colorado trips and I’m not sure which place it’s from without digging lol

aaaaand can’t decide if I wanna include a few from HOME here in KC ❤️

so many good mems 🫶🏼🐎⛰️ lmk your votes below!

08/11/2025

caption was too long so I put it in the slides above 🤍 things I think about often.

I’m so incredibly grateful that I have / had this space prior to Levi being born. it not only gives me community, but also a creative outlet that I feel is just mine. it continues to give me purpose and feel valued outside of motherhood alone, and I think a lot of us need something like that?

and in case anyone read the words differently up there, I truly think stay at home moms are the world’s biggest superheroes. dealing with multiple very mobile / active / opinionated toddlers at once is probably harder than what I do most days with Levi. BUT, oh how I wish he could run & play with me and tell me what he’s thinking. ❤️‍🩹

07/16/2025

early on in Levi’s life, I prayed SO HARD for a miracle. like all the other ones I saw and heard about. the babies who started life in a similar way as Levi, but came out relatively unscathed. who turned out developmentally “normal”. never had future hospital stays, or ongoing struggles or therapies. who were able to eat by mouth, weren’t on 20 different medications, walked and talked and still did everything on time.

I truly prayed so hard that would be our outcome— I didn’t want to imagine any other possibility. I didn’t want any of it.

slowly but surely, I started to recognize that THAT kind of miracle, wasn’t going to be our story.

I’ve had to accept that maybe our story serves a different purpose. maybe we represent a different kind of miracle.

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