#MotherStories: Still the Beginning
I’m struggling to write the next #motherstories installment. How do you talk about something that happened so long ago yet still feels so...
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- May 5, 2020
- 2 min
#MotherStories: A Series for Mother’s Day
Hey You, Yes… you, all of you who feel a load of all sorts as May rolls around. You. Here you are, it’s #allthingsSpring and new life and...
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- Jul 20, 2018
- 4 min
Revisiting Infertility… Finding Joy
I found myself sitting there, smiling , trying to hold back the old sobby, mixed up “happy for you, but sad for me” tears as I watched...
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- Jul 19, 2018
- 2 min
Happy Sweet 16, Jamie-Noel
It’s hard to believe if you were here, we’d be doing things like getting you ready for your driver’s test, planning a huge birthday...
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- May 12, 2018
- 4 min
I See You: Reflecting on #MothersDay
Writer’s Note: This entry was first written in Spring 2007, It seems like a lifetime again, and yet, I read it through and know that even...
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- Mar 17, 2010
- 7 min
Treasures in the Dark
I might just this time, hit “post” on this entry. It’s been brewing, and written and re-written since somewhere before the end of...
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- Jan 24, 2010
- 7 min
Things Lost Along the Way, Endo Version
I sent my family ~ Hubby, kiddos and my parents ~ all to church this morning without me. It’s in that moment, when the door closes, and...
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- Jul 16, 2008
- 8 min
Still Positive After All These Years.
I’ve come a long way in making peace with the infertility that has affected my life for so many years. A long ways. I still don’t like it...
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- Nov 20, 2007
- 11 min
When Pain Is What It Is.
Here I was, all set today to finally pull myself up and talk about the good things that adoption has brought to my life. It is Adoption...
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- Dec 20, 2006
- 2 min
My Christmas Love
“This child should be here but her path went another way, to heaven instead of to earth.” I’m sitting here in the cold, hugging my babies...
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- Jul 19, 2005
- 3 min
Jamie-Noel
I have spent a good deal of the last several hours thinking about Jamie-Noel, who would be three today if she had lived longer than the...
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