HopelessHoper

I’m struggling to write the next #motherstories installment. How do you talk about something that happened so long ago yet still feels so...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

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...