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Two weeks from today, if all goes well (dare I say, “as planned”), we will be closing on our current house and our new home, followed soon after by beginning the process of moving. Since we returned from our wonderful vacation with my side of our family to Hilton Head Island, SC (which I plan […]

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Sometime over the past few weeks I became aware of an awesome project that Angie from Still Life with Circles had started on her blog. She began by writing a very thoughtful and moving post about where she is at in her grief and her life right now, two years, five months and counting since […]

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Today I ran in my 4th “Ridge Run” 5K race in our neighborhood. Prior to 5 years ago, in 2006, when I trained for and ran in my first 5K race, I had never run for pleasure or exercise before. Beyond that I didn’t understand or appreciate why anyone else would choose to do so. […]

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It’s National Infertility Awareness Week (NIAW) April 24 – 30 and today I am participating in the “Bust an Infertility Myth Blog Challenge.” I have chosen to “Bust a Myth” about Secondary Infertility, which my family and I dealt with for over five years. There is one secondary infertility myth listed on Resolve’s list of […]

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I took this picture last year on March 17 of Sean, Abby and my feet in our matching shamrock socks. We wear them every year on and around St. Patrick’s Day. We started this shamrock sock tradition before Sean was born. When I was pregnant with him in 2003 the only clothing item that I […]

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Recently Abby and I were driving to pick up Sean from one of his after school programs when “100 Years” by Five for Fighting came on the radio. I have really liked that song ever since I first heard it years ago and found myself connecting again with the various ages in the verses as […]

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