February 20th, 2023 | EP. 19 – Gracies First Christmas PT. 2 (Final) Welcome back to Part 2, and the final part, of Gracies First Christmas. As per usual, dad is a bit behind the ball when it comes to keeping up with blog posts. Though, not trying to make any excuses, but here is my excuse anyways… Mom and …

January 3rd, 2023 | EP. 18 – Gracies First Christmas PT. 1 This is only Part 1 of Gracies’ first Christmas (Part 2 will be coming soon and we have a very special announcement in Part 2 that we want to highlight as we had a very unexpected Christmas gift that truly left mom and dad speechless). In this episode, …

October 23rd, 2022 | EP. 17 – Back To The Basics Hello again. Welcome back to the Gracies World Blog series where we frequently infrequently give updates on everyone’s favorite ‘G’ and our go-to girl: Grace Elizabeth. All jokes aside, we try to keep up with our blog at least once a month. Lately, it’s been hard to put cognitive …

September 27th, 2022 | EP. 16 – Hemi-Fontan | Open Heart Surgery #2 First, we want to say happy birthday to our sweet baby girl. She is 6 months old. Please enjoy this fun little recap of Grace’s 6 month journey. We love you Grace. Happy Birthday baby girl! -xoxo / Mom & Dad Grace has officially had her 2nd …

July 19th, 2022 | EP. 15 – Going Home After 99 days in the hospital, we are headed home! *We actually came home Friday, June 24th, but it’sbeen a BUSY few weeks! Grace has been recovering very well since her Norwood, even after having to go on bypass twice! The doctors and nurses are so impressed with her, after having …

June 9th, 2022 | EP. 14 – Post Op Updates and Prayer Requests Grace is recovering from being in the operating room for ten hours on Monday! She is doing well for the most part, given they had to work on her little heart for almost twice as long as expected. As anticipated, there are a lot of ups and …

June 6th, 2022 | EP. 13 – Norwood OperationHalf a heart, twice the fight! Grace Elizabeth had her Norwood Operation yesterday (June 6th, 2022). The Norwood operation was a success for Grace. The operation was supposed to take around six hours but ended up taking ten. When the surgeon saw the echo after they thought they were done, she noticed …

May 30th, 2022 | EP. 12 – Memorial Day Weekend Grace Digby the Sea Otter sends his love to Grace Elizabeth First – Abby, Grace, and I would like to say THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HAVE SERVED. Without our servicemen and women, we might not have the ability to be here in Ann Arbor, MI at the University of …

May 21th, 2022 | EP. 11 – Just Grace-ing us with her presence Note in advance: There weren’t a whole lot of changes over the week 5/13/2022 through 5/21/2022. This blog post will capture a few details about grace but mostly it’s a blog with a lot of rants and jargon from Tommy. So if you are looking for more …

May 14th, 2022 | EP. 10 – Grace Happy Place Smiley Face Today, we are coming at you with a 2-part series. The first half of this blog features Abby (Mom) giving an update about the status of Grace. The second half of this blog features Tommy (Dad) just bringing, as promised, pictures of all of Gracies stuffed VIP animals, …