Birthdays

Today You Are Five

by Kathy on September 17, 2014 · 0 comments

in Abby, Birthdays, Family, Happiness, Life, Love, Memories, Milestones

It’s your “five birthday!” You have been telling us how excited you are for it, since you turned four last year. And what a year it has been… So many adventures, fun family vacations, trying new things and learning about your world. You are in Junior Kindergarten now and seem to enjoy going to school […]

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This is the only picture that exists of our family on the day Molly was born and died. I have had mixed feelings about it for years. It means so much to me to have a photo of the four of us together. I love the expression on Sean’s face and how sweetly Bob is holding […]

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Happy 6th Heavenly Birthday, Molly Marie! Another year has come and gone since we last celebrated your life and honored your memory. Another year has passed that we didn’t get to have you here with us, in our home and through our travels, though we believe you are always with us in spirit. Six years. Kindergarten. […]

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For the past six years, on Molly’s Heavenly Birthday in April and at our perinatal bereavement support group’s Walk to Remember in October, our family has participated in beautiful and therapeutic balloon releases in honor and memory of Molly, Babies Benson and other babies who left this world too soon. In the early years all I knew […]

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Today You Are Ten

by Kathy on October 2, 2013 · 5 comments

in Birthdays, Family, Friends, Life, Love, Sean

Double digits! Fourth grade! A decade in our life and family… Ten years ago today you made me a mom. Actually, you made me a mother from the moment your father and I first found out we were pregnant with you in January 2003. I will never forget how happy we were to see our […]

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Today You Are Four

by Kathy on September 17, 2013 · 4 comments

in Abby, Birthdays, Family, Friends, Life, Love

“September 17th is going to be a happy day!” That was my mantra four years ago, as we anxiously awaited your birth, our “rainbow baby.” After such a long journey to try to have another living child and a sibling for your big brother Sean, you arrived, as planned, via a scheduled c-section that day! […]

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