u/Madison_fawn

Whales are my favorite animals, too! Since I just started keeping a commonplace journal, I figured it would be a good place to start!

He’s a little red and bloody as I got him done 10 minutes ago

I just recently started journaling this week and I wanted so badly to keep a commonplace book after I kept seeing everyone else do it. Here’s my first entry to honor my new hobby! Any tips and tricks on how to make my pages more aesthetically pleasing are highly recommended!

My daughter has been home since December 22nd, 2025. We spent 68 days in the NICU, thankfully many of them were uneventful minus one major Brady scare and tons of little Brady’s. While I was in the hospital I prayed that I would be able to take my baby home so I wouldn’t have to go back to that place ever again…. But now when I look at pictures from all those months ago, I find myself wishing I was back there again with my itty bitty baby, experiencing motherhood again for the very first time, getting to lay eyes on my little girl for the first time. I miss the quiet room, the quiet nights, and cuddling my daughter for hours and hours and hours. It felt like everything else in the world melted away and it was just her and I. It’s amazing having her home, but there’s just something really special about the intimacy of the NICU environment. Maybe I’m a freak. Maybe I’m just nostalgic because my baby is growing too fast.