Life after loss with autism, preemies and a rainbow baby
This was the first year I was able to mail out our Christmas cards early (early = before New Years). Of course, the moment my hand cramp from addressing all those envelopes disappeared, the Christmas-card-worthy photos came rolling in… first time watching Home Alone a true smile on Santa’s lap multitasking at it’s finest decorating […]
Hoping Santa is good to you this year! Merry Christmas from our family to yours. ———————— Need some fun things to do over the break? Try my favorite indoor activities over at Childswork. Trying to get through the holidays with grief? I’ve written about ways I cope at Still Standing Magazine.
I had plans to write an inspirational post today, about how the pain of loss gets better as time goes on and putting one foot in front of the other becomes something you don’t have to talk yourself through, but since Friday my world has been rocked to the core like everyone else’s. I need […]
Something about little girl dresses leaves me starry-eyed and tilting my head and missing my girls who were little just a few days ago and missing my girl who will never be big at all. Even if I hadn’t lost a daughter I think it would still be hard for me to part with the […]
My kids have yet to ask for the famous Elf on the Shelf. I debated over whether we should begin the tradition or not and of course consulted my favorite parenting resource, Facebook. I dreamt of Pinterest-esque plans of elf snowball fights and Cheerios disguised as elf-sized donuts. Then, I remembered who I was talking to […]
When you lose balance, the body’s natural reaction is to take a step forward to stay upright or put your hands out to catch yourself or just to remember to get back up again. I tend to do none of these. While I’m falling, I turn inwards to think about it, wondering what made me […]
While at Blogher this summer I had the chance to meet all kinds of bloggers who I had chatted with online for years. I also had the chance to chat with bloggers in person who I had never talked to via the internet. I met one such blogger and the beginning of our conversation went […]
I have a procrastination problem, especially when it comes to Christmas cards. But last year changed it all, because I received some fabulous cards from some fabulous friends and they all came from the same site. So when I was finally mailing out my cards, which hopefully arrived by Easter, I vowed to get my […]
I don’t really love being in front of the camera and I’m also not fantastic at video-editing so I’m going to attempt to start sharing a few vlogs here to see if I can get better at both. Today I’m sharing the kids Halloween costume choices and also accepting full responsibility for the indecision gene […]
I never talk about this. I let people wonder. I let them look at me and look at her, then look again when she calls me “Mom.” I have heard it all. Are you the mother? You must be sisters. And my favorite? You don’t look old enough to be her mother. I should be […]
