Birthdays

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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Welcome to the fifth check-in for the Spring Shed! It has been a surreal and bittersweet week for our country and my family personally. From the bombing at the Boston Marathon on Monday and accompanying manhunt over the past 24 hours to the fifth anniversary of the birth and death of our baby girl Molly, […]

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