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Noonan Syndrome: Our Story

This is Brave.org: Motherhood and Noonan Syndrome

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Having two kids so close together has made the last year feel CA-RAZY and often super overwhelming - and of course a major move to another city didn’t help with my anxiety. But after three months here we’re settling into our new home and community just a little and I’m finally feeling like I might be able to keep my head above water 🙌🏻 Time to have another one! JUST KIDDING, MOM
I have a confession to make. About a year ago I started to actively try to grow this platform but the reason probably isn’t what you would think; I wasn’t hoping for internet fame or free stuff. Instead I had started working on some essays that I was hoping to craft into a hilarious, tender, heart-wide-open account of motherhood. I thought that if I managed to grow a bit of a following on here I’d have a ready-made audience to sell my book to once it was done. Ambitious! But also I like where my head was at. That was back before our second baby was born. • Imagine my violent joy and dismay when a gift arrived from my husband, a book that is exactly what I had wanted to write. It was beautiful and vulnerable and embarrassing and true and my exact sense of humour. A novel about motherhood written by a mother who experiences exactly my anxieties and fears, whose toddlers are astounding in their frankness and attitude and empathy. It’s my dream book come to life, MY book,. Except it was written by @catherinewman. If you’re a mother or just want to know every minute, joyful, despondent detail about motherhood please read Catastrophic Happiness or Waiting for Birdy. I’ve never read a book that made me actually laugh and actually cry, and I’ve read a LOT of stuff. Like, a lot a lot. I’m so in the thick of it lately I could cry, somehow completely touched out and repulsed by and in love with the two beautiful babies I have made, but I’m operating at Level 10 Vulnerability lately and it felt so good to crack a book that spoke such truth to my experience, a book that understands the tandem joy and panic of parenting. • Thank you for these books, Catherine! They are such a gift. I love you for telling your stories because I just feel so incredibly seen. But I kinda also hate you for writing about my experience as a mother of two but *at least* ten times better than I ever could. Pls be my friend 😂
#ProckyFam Travel Review: England • Scenery and Parks: 9/10. Everything in the English countryside is stunning from the ivy climbing over old stone walls to the lush green rolling hills on every horizon. Somehow even a horse turd on the cobblestones can look quaint and poetic here. Took off one point because a lot of areas are not very stroller accessible (probs because they were built 450 years ago). • Weather: 0/10. Sorry, Yorkshire, but your weather has been absolute “bollocks”. We’ve seen the sun for about 2.5 hours in two weeks which hasn’t been very fun for getting outside with a baby and a toddler who both have a cold. Can’t be helped and likely not the norm for June but I resent having to wear the one sweater I brought for two weeks straight. • English Gardens: a perfect 10. Everywhere we go I have been exclaiming in delight at the full, blooming gardens with neat trims and just a dash of unkempt wildness. Alan Titsmarsh is clearly leading the North to garden greatness! • Accommodations: 20/10. Tom’s mum is a dream and we’ve been beyond well taken care of in all facets of life. This is the first time in a long time we’ve had two full weeks off from cooking, dishes, and laundry, and it feels like a sigh of relief. Plus she makes the best steak pie we’ve ever had. • English Driving: 1/10. Very fun indeed and well worthy of a full 10 but I took a point off for every time I truly thought we were about to be killed by a speeding lorry or errant sheep. Also feeling #blessed that we don’t get carsick because there isn’t a straight road or anything close to it in this whole country. • Pubs: 8/10. I’ve always loved the pub culture here. Kids are welcome (some pubs even have outdoor play areas for kids!) and I really love paying first instead of last so you can leave whenever you want. The cider is always exemplary. Points off for the consistently terrible music. Celine Dion is talented but her music doesn’t make for great ambiance. • Farm Animal Views: 10/10 from Hennie. Even on a 2 min drive we’ve seen horses, cows, deer, and a lot of sheep, resulting in Hen’s new catchphrase: “Loot, beep!” (Look, sheep!” 🐑🐄🐎🦌 #travelyorkshire
T E N M O N T H S O L D • What else is there to say about Wellsy at ten months except that he eats a LOT, never (ever!) stops moving, can stand on his own, and has the kind of smile that lights up a whole room ...and the next room over. #Wells1to12

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