Team Bergeron

Well, Maya’s surgery went really well. It’s so interesting to me to observe how people carry themselves under these situations, particularly involving a lot of pain and a lot of narcotics 😉 It’s just the sort of situation that gives people a weird freebie to over-dramatize their situation, speak down to people, abandon manners even like simple please’s and thank you’s, and just expect all sorts of special treatment and “take time off” from being…

Adee’s husband, Mike Cazayoux, came into town doing some work for Working Against Gravity this week (also, one of the owners of Brute Stength).  He and his film guy, John, have spent a fair amount of time interviewing and filming Kat and interviewing me and Ben. Mike is AWESOME, by the way.  He’s just one of those very sincere people that is genuinely interested in what you have to say.  About anything.  And, my other…

Here we go again.  I, literally, can’t believe this is happening all over again.  Just different. If you were with me last year, you remember that we had booked this incredible trip to Iceland where me, Ben, and Maya were all going up to visit Kat.  Except that the day before we left, we realized Maya had lost her passport.  There’s no great “story” to it, she just didn’t end up going.  We sat on…

   I think I’m going to start using this little Update Show series as a place for me to record random little things going on over here that don’t really warrant an entire blog post.  Here we go: The school year officially wrapped up for all 4 kids.  Maya and Jonah survived Finals Week, received their grades for the year, and are done.  Bode and Harley Love also finished their last week of playgroup since…

The fact that anyone ever seeks my advice on parenting is a complete mystery to me.  It’s like, “I’m a NIGHTMARE.  I have NO IDEA what I’m doing.  And, the only reason my kids haven’t run away from home and started a new life under an alias is because my ex-husband is a rock star parent and he cleans up all of the messes I make with them.” Seriously.  That’s what my internal dialogue is with…

      First of all, yes.  I am still sick.  It’s sort of crossed over into the “this is getting funny” now stage.  I feel like people are looking at me thinking, “Ok.  Stop taking advantage of the sick thing.  It’s time to get back to real life.” I haven’t been to the gym since last Wednesday.  That’s about 10 days ago.  And, we’re not talking like I’ve been doing some modified home workouts with sit-ups…

Maya’s Surgery Date is Set 🙂 was last modified: May 27th, 2017 by Heather

As many parents know, when your child suffers any sort of trauma…physical or emotional…you labor endlessly to try and figure out a way to help them overcome it.  You dig in your brain and soul as hard as you possibly can to find the silver lining in whatever it is they’re dealing with. Maya, in this case, is having to come to terms with a big part of her life changing from what she had…

I got the text from my father yesterday when I was in Albany, just before the final men’s heat began Event #5. “Not good guys.  Maya hurt her leg and had to be assisted off the field.” I know Maya enough to know that she, in her entire life of playing sports since she was Bode’s age, that she has never been hurt so bad that she needed to be “assisted off the field”. I knew…

Bode. Now, this is a totally different animal. You know how people walk around talking about how boys are always such mama’s boys?  They love petting their mom’s hair.  They want their mom to hold them all of the time.  And, they don’t ever want their mom to leave their side. Yeah, I don’t think my kid got that memo. The only reason I exist in Bode’s eyes is to drive him around, cut up apples…