Birthdays

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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Happy 5th Heavenly Birthday Molly Marie! How did we get here? How is it possible that five years have come and gone since you were born and died? Not a day goes by that I don’t still think about you and wonder how you are doing in Heaven. I have to believe there is a Heaven […]

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Five-Year Olds

by Kathy on April 9, 2013 · 4 comments

in Abby, Birthdays, Grief, Loss, Love, Milestones, Molly, Siblings

Tonight after Abby’s dance class (for three-year olds) I heard one of her classmate’s care givers tell some other people that her classmate’s older sister (who was there) just celebrated her fifth birthday yesterday and what a big girl she is now. It was so bittersweet for me to think about Abby’s older sister Molly […]

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Welcome to the ninth Friday check-in for the Winter Shed! Here is the back story about this support group/blog hop for those trying to be accountable for the positive changes we intend to make in our lives in 2013. Whether you are trying to shed weight, find more balance or let go of something else that is dragging you […]

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