Welcome to Unintended Blessings

Finding Gratitude in the Chaos

A blog about life with a child who has multiple medical needs and how these unexpected challenges turned into some of life's greatest blessings.

Where We Are Now

I was looking through some of my first posts on this blog and came across the one titled How We Survive Long Hospital Stays and decided...

Since our youngest daughter was born, we've been faced with many battles. For too long I chose to fight those battles alone. My life was...

Dear Nichole, You must be feeling a lot of feelings right now. You‘re baby girl just underwent a major surgery. A surgery that left her...

As I’m writing this, I’m sitting here waiting for baby girl to come out of surgery. I can’t help but think about the coincidence that one...

Later this week will be the beginning of another prolonged hospital stay. Our sweet girl is undergoing an epilepsy surgery after many...

Prior to our youngest daughter's birth, I felt like I had a pretty good spiritual life. I went to church every week, read my Bible, and...

November 11, 2018. This day should have only been remembered as the date of our youngest daughters birth. Instead, so many emotions come...