Sharing an email we sent out to some close family and friends over the weekend.

Hello all you beautiful people,

It is with thankful hearts that we introduce you to our daughter, Felicity Sol Hickson. 

Sitting here in the Hospital and just so T H A N K F U L that things continue to be stable for the most part and that I am saying “hello” to the third trimester for the first time!

Hello all you beautiful people. Given that I have been pretty stable since Tuesday, we were really hopeful that the ultrasound on Friday would give the doctors more reassurance that I could go home. Unfortunately, we were told that I will need to stay in the hospital until I deliver…

Tomorrow morning our Lucie will be four years old. Oh my word, she’s such a big girl and beyond thrilled that she will be a big sister.

We have celebrated this girl full and well this year and I’m so thankful, because in the midst of all the festivities, we got a rough reminder of the fragility of life through not one, but two hospital stays for me and baby Fafa...

 At about the 20 week mark in my pregnancy with Lucie, I jotted down some thoughts on my experience. At that point I thought I still had half my pregnancy to go, but just four short weeks later, Lucie made her unexpected debut at 24 weeks and 1 day. Today, I am thankful to share...

It’s getting darker earlier, there’s a chill in the air, and as my niece Addi exclaimed, “it’s colder than A/C out there,” while she stared out our back window. If this post seems like it could be recapping two or three months, instead of just one, you’re not alone. We had A LOT on the calendar...

Earlier this year the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment launched a campaign called “New York in 25” to highlight NYC life… I decided to take a stab at it! Hope you enjoy my attempt, along with many pictures from the beginning of fall.

As you know, summer for us was filled with lots of friends, family, and of course, football camps. In the middle of August, we packed up a rental car with everyone including Bess, and we made our way out east to Long Island for two weeks...

Summer looks a little different for us. Rob’s schedule fluctuates from daily afterschool groups to week long full day camps and clinics both in the City and on Long Island. There’s a lot of planning around those weeks, so when we have downtime, if we aren’t intentional, it can slip right by...

It's the beginning of summer. May and June have been full. We've known all year that June, July and August would stretch us out especially thin because of Huddle Up NYC Summer Camps. As I'd look ahead at the summer calendar, I would start to feel a bit overwhelmed by the sheer volume of activities we had. Thankfully…

I’m spending some time in this blog post reflecting on the joys and challenges that have come from the season we went through after Lucie was born. We recently celebrated our third Lucie Day! AMAZING! In the midst of the many ways we have been blessed through this experience, I’ve actually recently realized that one of the after-effects for me has been a feeling of just being stuck, paralyzed by fear (some totally valid and justifiable, and some just riddled in doubt). Have you felt that before? I also talk about how the song, Here Comes the Sun, by the Beatles has become so special to me in the past few years… I hope you enjoy this post, along with many many pictures.

It's hard to believe that we've lived in this apartment for a little over four years already. I wanted to share some pictures of our space. If you’ve visited us throughout the time we’ve lived here, you know... 

I have been thinking of this phrase so much in light of the shooting that took place in South Florida on Valentine's Day.

There is something about the new year (and new blank calendars) that makes me hopeful for the many unknown future possibilities...

It's the week between Christmas and New Year and we're still listening to Christmas music on repeat in our apartment...

Three years ago today, my morning started with me and Rob waking up in a hospital. I had been in pre-term labor and I was being monitored, on bed rest, hooked up to IV’s, and hadn’t showered since Sunday. It was Thursday. The sun hadn’t come up just yet...

Sometimes when I chat or text with a friend or family member, and we haven’t seen each other in a while, as we say goodbye one of us will say, “Un Fuerte Abrazo”. It means, big hug...

Lately, when you ask Lucie how old she is, she says, “I’m Two and a Hat.” She can’t pronounce the “f” sound just yet so it sounds like she's saying "hat", which is so cute.

If you'd ask me how we're doing on any given day of the last month, I'd say, "We're adjusting!"

Somehow, Lucie knows how to get to the music on my iPhone from the lock screen. Every morning, while I'm getting ready, she grabs my phone and swipes for about 0.7 seconds until she gets to exactly what she's looking for...